American Economic Journal:
Economic Policy
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Retirement Lock and Prescription Drug Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Part D
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
vol. 12,
no. 1, February 2020
(pp. 389–417)
Abstract
I examine whether lack of an individual market for prescription drug insurance causes individuals to delay retirement. Exploiting the 2006 introduction of Medicare Part D, which subsidized drug insurance for Americans over age 65, I use a triple-differences design that compares labor outcomes of individuals with retiree health insurance up to age 65 to those with insurance for life, before and after age 65, before and after 2006. I find that those with benefits only to age 65 decreased full-time work by 8.4 percentage points, of which 70 percent was due to transitions to part-time work.Citation
Wettstein, Gal. 2020. "Retirement Lock and Prescription Drug Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Part D." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 12 (1): 389–417. DOI: 10.1257/pol.20160560Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- G22 Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
- H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
- I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
- J26 Retirement; Retirement Policies
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