@article {7194,
	title = {The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men},
	journal = {International Economic Review},
	volume = {49},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {476-514},
	publisher = {49},
	abstract = {We model the employment and medical care decisions of older men who face health risk. The budget constraint incorporates detailed characteristics of health insurance as well as Social Security and private pensions. A man whose health insurance is tied to continued employment with his current employer faces the risk of large medical expenditures in the event of an adverse health shock if he retires before becoming eligible for Medicare at age 65. A man whose employer provides retiree health insurance or who has access to other health insurance not tied to his employment decision (e.g., from his wife) can retire before age 65 without consequences for his health insurance coverage. We use data from the Health and Retirement Survey to estimate the parameters of the model using structural methods. Simulations based on the estimates imply that changes in health insurance, including access and restrictions to retiree health insurance and Medicare have a modest impact on employment behavior among older males.},
	keywords = {Employment and Labor Force, Medicare/Medicaid/Health Insurance, Retirement Planning and Satisfaction},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00487.x},
	author = {David M. Blau and Gilleskie, Donna B.}
}
@inbook {5190,
	title = {The Effect of Health on Employment Transitions of Older Men},
	booktitle = {Worker Wellbing in a Changing Labor Market},
	series = {Research in Labor Economics},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2001},
	note = {ProCite field 6 : In ProCite field 8 : ed.},
	pages = {35-66},
	publisher = {JAI Press},
	organization = {JAI Press},
	address = {Amsterdam},
	keywords = {Employment and Labor Force, Health Conditions and Status, Retirement Planning and Satisfaction},
	author = {David M. Blau and Gilleskie, Donna B.},
	editor = {Solomon W. Polachek}
}
@article {5469,
	title = {Health Insurance and Retirement of Married Couples},
	year = {2001},
	note = {RDA},
	institution = {University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill},
	address = {Chapel Hill, NC},
	abstract = {In this study we propose a new explanation for the fact that labor force participation of older married couples is strongly positively correlated, and we develop and estimate a model that allows us to determine its importance. Our explanation is based on the observations that (1) most health insurance is provided by employers until eligibility for Medicare begins at age 65, (2) many individuals are covered by health insurance from the spouse s employer, and (3) there is substantial variation across employer health insurance plans in coverage for retirees and the spouses of retirees. Descriptive evidence shows that couples who face employment incentives arising from shared health insurance appear to respond strongly to those incentives. We build a dynamic behavioral model of the employment and medical care decisions of older couples. The model places no restrictions on either the degree of complementarity of leisure hours of spouses in utility or the value of health insurance (i.e., risk aversion): these two key aspects of behavior are determined by parameters identified by variation in health risk and health insurance constraints and the behavior of couples in response to these constraints. Estimates of the model therefore allow us to determine the empirical importance of the explanation we propose.  Estimates of the model using data from the Health and Retirement Survey indicate that couples have a strong preference for shared leisure and a relatively low degree of risk-aversion. The riskreducing feature of health insurance does not contribute much to the observed correlation in labor force decisions of spouses.},
	keywords = {Adult children, Employment and Labor Force, Medicare/Medicaid/Health Insurance},
	url = {https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/filevault/event_papers/Empirical1017023.pdf},
	author = {David M. Blau and Gilleskie, Donna B.}
}
@article {6763,
	title = {Retiree Health Insurance and Labor Force Behavior of Older Men in the 1990s},
	journal = {Review of Economics and Statistics},
	volume = {83},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {64-80},
	publisher = {83},
	abstract = {In this study the authors use behavioral and empirical models, along with data from Wave 1 (1992) and Wave 2 (1994) of the Health and Retirement Study, to gain an understanding of how changes in health insurance policies effect a persons decision to retire or continue working.  It is hypothesized that older men who have employer-provided health insurance along with employer-provided retiree health insurance (EPRHI) are more likely to retire, as well as less likely to reenter the labor force or change jobs, than a similar person without EPRHI.  From their models the author s observe that one s own EPRHI and one s spouses EPRHI are correlated with lower job changing, but not significantly.  Older men and those with poor health are less affected by EPRHI than their younger or healthier counterparts.  Also, EPRHI is associated with low labor force exit and higher labor force entrance, but not significantly.},
	keywords = {Employment and Labor Force, Medicare/Medicaid/Health Insurance, Retirement Planning and Satisfaction},
	url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/2646690},
	author = {David M. Blau and Gilleskie, Donna B.}
}
@article {5358,
	title = {A Dynamic Structural Model of Health Insurance and Retirement},
	year = {1998},
	institution = {University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill},
	keywords = {Medicare/Medicaid/Health Insurance, Pensions},
	url = {https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/conf/2000/sdm_blau.pdf},
	author = {David M. Blau and Gilleskie, Donna B.}
}
@article {5335,
	title = {The Effect of Health on Employment Transitions of Older Men},
	year = {1997},
	institution = {Chapel Hill, NC, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Economics},
	keywords = {Employment and Labor Force, Health Conditions and Status, Retirement Planning and Satisfaction},
	author = {David M. Blau and Gilleskie, Donna B. and Slusher, Chuck}
}
@article {5342,
	title = {Health Insurance and Retirement in the 1990s: A Dynamic Structural Analysis},
	year = {1997},
	note = {RDA},
	institution = {University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill},
	keywords = {Medicare/Medicaid/Health Insurance, Pensions},
	author = {David M. Blau and Gilleskie, Donna B.}
}
