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“...We investigate the size of the consumption drop at retirement in Italy by exploiting pension eligibility information to correct for endogenous retirement. We...”

“...We investigate the role of retirement on the adoption of preventive behaviours and on mental health during the first wave of the pandemic. We address the...”

“...We address the issue of the efficiency of household portfolios in the presence of housing risk. We treat housing stock as an asset and rents as a stochastic...”

“...We use individual life history data from 12 European countries, and duration analysis that controls for unobserved heterogeneity, to investigate whether...”

“...ABSTRACT Using data from Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we investigate the determinants of voluntary private health insurance...”

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