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dc.contributor.authorHale, Jo Mhairi
dc.contributor.authorBijlsma, Maarten J.
dc.contributor.authorLorenti, Angelo
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-12T11:30:02Z
dc.date.available2021-07-12T11:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2021-09
dc.identifier.citationHale , J M , Bijlsma , M J & Lorenti , A 2021 , ' Does postponing retirement affect cognitive function? A counterfactual experiment to disentangle life course risk factors ' , SSM - Population Health , vol. 15 , 100855 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100855en
dc.identifier.issn2352-8273
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 274854742
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: d1085e69-6f0b-4ae2-8f5a-e27ee282d596
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:194DD2E3E301560921F6D9C4BB0DC262
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-1343-3879/work/96489793
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85108891004
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000697998100038
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23523
dc.description.abstractEvidence suggests that contemporaneous labor force participation affects cognitive function; however, it is unclear whether it is employment itself or endogenous factors related to individuals’ likelihood of employment that protects against cognitive decline. We exploit innovations in counterfactual causal inference to disentangle the effect of postponing retirement on later-life cognitive function from the effects of other life-course factors. With the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (1996–2014, n = 20,469), we use the parametric g-formula to estimate the effect of postponing retirement to age 67. We also study whether the benefit of postponing retirement is affected by gender, education, and/or occupation, and whether retirement affects cognitive function through depressive symptoms or comorbidities. We find that postponing retirement is protective against cognitive decline, accounting for other life-course factors (population: 0.34, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.20,0.47; individual: 0.43, 95% CI: 0.26,0.60). The extent of the protective effect depends on subgroup, with the highest educated experiencing the greatest reduction in cognitive decline (individual: 50%, 95% CI: 32%,71%). By using innovative models that better reflect the empirical reality of interconnected life-course processes, this work makes progress in understanding how retirement affects cognitive function.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSSM - Population Healthen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).en
dc.subjectLabor force participationen
dc.subjectRetirementen
dc.subjectCognitive functionen
dc.subjectLife courseen
dc.subjectCausal inferenceen
dc.subjectRA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicineen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingen
dc.subject.lccRA0421en
dc.titleDoes postponing retirement affect cognitive function? A counterfactual experiment to disentangle life course risk factorsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Population and Health Researchen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100855
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321001300?via%3Dihub#appsec1en


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