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Retirement and Healthy Eating
Author(s) -
Celidoni Martina,
Dal Bianco Chiara,
Rebba Vincenzo,
Weber Guglielmo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
fiscal studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1475-5890
pISSN - 0143-5671
DOI - 10.1111/1475-5890.12196
Subject(s) - healthy eating , consumption (sociology) , retirement age , health and retirement study , statutory law , economics , gerontology , work (physics) , demographic economics , psychology , medicine , political science , sociology , pension , physical activity , physical therapy , finance , law , social science , mechanical engineering , engineering
This paper investigates the effect of retirement on healthy eating using data drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We estimate the causal effect of retiring from work on daily fruit or vegetable consumption by exploiting policy changes in eligibility rules for early and statutory retirement. Our results show that changes in eating behaviour upon retirement are gender‐specific: retirement induces men to reduce healthy eating; it has no effect on women. We further show that, for men, retirement increases the probability of becoming obese.