Request For Research: Basic Income

Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by nickff on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @03:13PM (#10982829)

People who retire earlier die sooner; for each year earlier that one retires, life expectancy is shortened by two months (and the results are robust against different assumptions).[1] This would lead one to believe that working is good for your health.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/2012/05/17/retirement-kills-a-new-ma...

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by OldSchoolJohnny on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @03:29PM (#10982987)

Obligatory: causation, correlation mention - surely people who are sicker retire sooner?

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by cgh on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:31PM (#10983591)

They accounted for that. It boils down to males adopting unhealthy life patterns in retirement (drinking, sitting around and so forth).

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by nickff on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:23PM (#10983521)

Obligatory: RTDA. Surely people who read citations before posting won't ask these questions?

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by criddell on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:31PM (#10983592)

You said: People who retire earlier die sooner

It's actually true only for men.

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by nickff on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @07:36PM (#10984881)

Men are people too.

I never said all people would suffer early deaths from retirement. For all I know, some people's lives may be prolonged.

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by vectorjohn on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @06:14PM (#10984374)

Two months per year? To me that's worth it. I want to live as long as possible, but that is strongly based on how much I enjoy life. If the things people enjoy happen to be a little unhealthy, it may be worth it.

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by criddell on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @03:18PM (#10982886)

For me, quantity of life is secondary to quality of life.

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by phkahler on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:06PM (#10985172)

But if you hate working, you want to retire as early as possible to have as much non-working time as possible.

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by nyan4 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:33PM (#10985340)

>People who retire earlier die sooner

some people. Do not generalize.

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by tempestn on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:03PM (#10985549)

I think the "on average" was clearly implied.

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by criddell on Thursday January 28, 2016 @04:35AM (#10987280)

Mathematically, it might be close to average but I don't think that's a great way of putting it either. If you click through to the study, it was actually only men that died earlier. The lifespan of women was unchanged.

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by nathan_f77 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:53AM (#10988875)

Damn, this is not good news, but thanks for sharing that.

I would hope that this is not relevant to people who just want to be financially independent at an early age, and never really "retire". Maybe a lot of people just don't know what to do with their time, so they turn to unhealthy activities like drinking and sitting on the couch all day watching TV.

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