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Exploring the Effect of Retirement on Health in Japan

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Authors:
  1. Masaaki Mizuochi

    1. Faculty of Policy Studies, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan

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  • Identifies the causal effect of retirement on health in Japan
  • Focuses on the heterogeneity in the effect of retirement on health
  • Proposes policies to keep retirees healthy in a super-longevity society

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies (BRIEFSPOPULAT)

Part of the book sub series: Population Studies of Japan (POPULAT)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Masaaki Mizuochi
    Pages 1-26

  3. Short- and Long-Term Effects of Retirement on Health

    • Masaaki Mizuochi
    Pages 27-47

  4. Does Lifestyle Prior to Retirement Matter?

    • Masaaki Mizuochi
    Pages 49-72

  5. Effect of Retirement Timing on Health

    • Masaaki Mizuochi
    Pages 73-93

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 95-96
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About this book

This book examines the relationship between retirement and health of older people in Japan’s super-aging society and provides a key to understanding the remarkable longevity of the population. It also furnishes new evidence in this research field where the findings have been conflicting and the detailed causal mechanism has not been clarified for many years. For that purpose, a large-scale survey was used, “The Longitudinal Survey of Middle-Aged and Elderly Persons,” which was conducted in Japan from 2005 to 2015 with 34,240 respondents aged 50–59 years in the first sample. Using this longitudinal survey, which focused on people just before retirement, and rigorous causal inference including instrumental variable and panel estimation, several research questions were tested.


Specifically, existing literature does not provide sufficient findings about the heterogeneity in the effect of retirement on health. Thus, we have questions which should be addressed:does retirement affect health immediately or with delay; does the lifestyle before retirement matter for post-retirement health; and which is better for health retiring early or late? The lack of this viewpoint is believed to have led to the conflicting previous findings. If we know the answers to the questions, we would be able to understand the mechanisms between retirement and health, and prepare more properly for better retirement life.


Showing the results of the testing of these questions, this book provides readers, researchers, and policymakers a comprehensive understanding of the retirement–health relationship and a suggestion for an effective labor and health policy in an aging society.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Policy Studies, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan

    Masaaki Mizuochi

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Masaaki Mizuochi, Nanzan University 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring the Effect of Retirement on Health in Japan

  • Authors: Masaaki Mizuochi

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2638-8

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2637-1Published: 13 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2638-8Published: 12 July 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2211-3215

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-3223

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 96

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Demography, Life course, Labor Economics, Population Economics

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