According to a study that “account[s] for biases due to unobserved selection and endogeneity,” retirement really is bad for your health. Just as I suspected. (Next I’d like to see a study confirming the obvious fact that retirement leads to massive atrophy of social skills!) With luck, I’ll traumatize your great-grandchildren in 2072 when I collapse during my final lecture… preferably while diagramming the effect of price controls.
Thanks to Mankiw for the tip.
Update: Causal evidence over the last two decades is a bit more mixed, but I still will never retire.
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Well, if you love teaching, Bryan, you might want to keep at it until you die. For me, teaching had some joys, but my heart was more in research and writing. Which I have been able to do much more of since my retirement into emeritus status. My health has been great, my social life, entirely satisfying, and I don't think I am going to die soon.
Same. I'm a prof, been teaching 31 years, am 72. I Among my gigs are a multidisciplinary drawing class in Rome and a travel program with undergrads that covers about 6000 miles each fall.
Why would I ever want to stop doing those things, especially since I learn more about how to do it well with every passing year?