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The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior
by Eric French and John Bailey Jones
WP 2007-170
  • Workers value health insurance well in excess of its actuarial cost, and access to health insurance has a significant effect on retirement behavior.
  • Shifting the Medicare eligibility age to 67 would cause a significant retirement delay—as large as the delay from shifting the Social Security normal retirement age from 65 to 67.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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