Later retirement, job strain, and health: Evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom

Ludovico Carrino; Karen Glaser; Mauricio Avendano Pabon

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Later retirement, job strain, and health: Evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom

Ludovico Carrino, Karen Glaser, Mauricio Avendano Pabon

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This paper examines the impact of raising the State Pension age on women’s health. Exploiting a UK pension reform that increased women’s State Pension age for up to six years since 2010, we show that rising the State Pension age leads to an increase of up to 12 percentage points in the probability of depressive symptoms, alongside an increase in self-reported medically diagnosed depression among women in a lower occupational grade. Our results suggest that these effects are driven by prolonged exposure to high-strain jobs characterised by high demands and low control. Effects are consistent across multiple sub-components of the General Health Question (GHQ) and SF-12 scores, and robust to alternative empirical specifications, including ‘placebo’ analyses for women who never worked and for men.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	891-912
Number of pages	22
Journal	Health Economics
Volume	29
Issue number	8
Early online date	12 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4025
Publication status	Published - 8 Jul 2020

Keywords

Social Security
Public Pensions
Economics of ageing
Public Health
Understanding Society

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Later retirement, job strain, and health: Evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom

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