DOES EARLY ACCESS TO PENSION WEALTH IMPROVE HEALTH?
We examine the health impacts of early access to public pension wealth by exploiting a unique policy in Singapore allowing individuals to withdraw a proportion of their pension savings after their 55th birthday. For the identification, we employ a regression discontinuity design by comparing individ...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 1783 - 1795 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2020
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