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Introduction / Courtney Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise -- Work capacity and longer working lives in Belgium / Alain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Canada / Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle -- Health capacity to work at older ages in Denmark / Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen -- Health capacity to work at older ages in France / Didier Blanchet, Eve Caroli, Corinne Prost, and Muriel Roger -- Healthy, happy, and idle: estimating the health capacity to work at older ages in Germany / Hendrik Jürges, Lars Thiel, and Axel Börsch-Supan -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Italy / Agar Brugiavini, Giacomo Pasini, and Guglielmo Weber -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Japan / Emiko Usui, Satoshi Shimizutani, and Takashi Oshio -- Work capacity at older ages in the Netherlands / Adriaan Kalwij, Arie Kapteyn, and Klaas de Vos -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Spain / Pilar García-Gómez, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall Castelló -- Health, work capacity, and retirement in Sweden / Per Johansson, Lisa Laun, and Mårten Palme -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from the United Kingdom / James Banks, Carl Emmerson, and Gemma Tetlow -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from the U.S. / Courtney Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Courtney Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise -- 1. Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium / Alain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre -- 2. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from Canada / Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle -- 3. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Denmark / Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen -- 4. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France / Didier Blanchet, Eve Caroli, Corinne Prost, and Muriel Roger -- 5. Healthy, Happy, and Idle: Estimating the Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Germany / Hendrik Jürges, Lars Thiel, and Axel Börsch-Supan -- 6. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from Italy / Agar Brugiavini, Giacomo Pasini, and Guglielmo Weber -- 7. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from Japan / Emiko Usui, Satoshi Shimizutani, and Takashi Oshio -- 8. Work Capacity at Older Ages in the Netherlands / Adriaan Kalwij, Arie Kapteyn, and Klaas de Vos -- 9. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from Spain / Pilar García-Gómez, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall Castelló -- 10. Health, Work Capacity, and Retirement in Sweden / Per Johansson, Lisa Laun, and Mårten Palme -- 11. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from the United Kingdom / James Banks, Carl Emmerson, and Gemma Tetlow -- 12. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from the United States / Courtney Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Machine generated contents note:1.Trends in Pension Cash-Out at Job Change and the Effects on Long-Term Outcomes /James M. Poterba --2.Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison /Daniel McFadden --3.House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder /Steven F. Venti --4.What Determines End-of-Life Assets? A Retrospective View /Brigitte C. Madrian --5.Understanding the Improvement in Disability-Free Life Expectancy in the US Elderly Population /Jonathan Skinner --6.Are Black-White Mortality Rates Converging? Acute Myocardial Infarction in the United States, 1993 -- 2010 /David R. Weir --7.Measuring Disease Prevalence in Surveys: A Comparison of Diabetes Self-Reports, Biomarkers, and Linked Insurance Claims /James P. Smith --8.Challenges in Controlling Medicare Spending: Treating Highly Complex Patients /Hidehiko Ichimura --9.Movies, Margins, and Marketing: Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt /Esther Duflo --10.Suicide, Age, and Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation /David M. Cutler --11.Does Retirement Make You Happy? A Simultaneous Equations Approach /Anne Case.

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