Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees: Does it Affect Retirement?

Maria D. Fitzpatrick

NBER Working Paper No. 19524
Issued in October 2013

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I would like to thank Michael Lovenheim, Susanna Loeb, Jordan Matsudaira, Melinda Morrill, Joseph Quinn and seminar participants at Cornell University, the NBER Conference on State and Local Health Plans for Active and Retired Public Employees and the CESifo Conference on the Economics of Education for helpful comments and suggestions. Funding from the National Institute on Aging, through Grant Number T32-AG000186 to the National Bureau of Economic Research, is gratefully acknowledged. All errors and omissions are my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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