Retiring to the good life? The short-term effects of retirement on health

Economics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-11

  Johnston, David W ^a   Lee, Wang Sheng ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health; Regression Discontinuity; Retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 61549126020     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.01.015     Document Type: Article

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