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  • Economics
  • Demography
  • Retirement Studies

Background:

  • Understanding factors influencing retirement decisions is crucial for economic planning.
  • Life expectancy has increased significantly over the past century.
  • Income growth and lifespan changes are key demographic trends affecting retirement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and analyze an optimizing life-cycle model of retirement.
  • To investigate the relationship between healthy life expectancy and retirement age.
  • To assess the historical and future impact of income and lifespan on retirement decisions.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an optimizing life-cycle economic model.
  • Assumed perfect capital markets for the model.
  • Calibrated the model using historical US data.

Main Results:

  • Increased healthy life expectancy generally leads to later retirement, but with an elasticity less than one.
  • Over the last century, rising incomes promoting earlier retirement have outweighed the effect of increasing lifespans.
  • The model predicts continued declines in optimal retirement age if real wage growth persists.

Conclusions:

  • Income growth is a dominant factor in historical retirement age trends.
  • Future retirement ages may decrease despite longer lifespans under certain economic conditions.
  • The interplay between longevity and economic growth shapes retirement patterns.