The effects of increasing the normal retirement age on health care utilization and mortality
利用瑞典地方政府雇员退休年龄从63岁提高到65岁的改革，分析该政策对65-69岁人群的医疗处方、住院和死亡率的影响，发现未对健康产生显著负面效应。
This essay estimates the health effects of increasing the normal retirement age using Swedish administrative data on drug prescriptions, hospitalizations, and mortality. To this end, I use a reform that raised the age at which broad categories of Swedish local government workers were entitled to retire with full pension benefits from 63 to 65. Estimating the effect of the reform on individuals’ health within the age range 65–69, the results show no evidence that the reform impacted mortality or health care utilization. Increasing the normal retirement age may thus have positive government income effects without seriously affecting short to medium run government health care expenditures.