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How Retirement Was Invented

By Sarah Laskow — 2014

The earliest schemes for financial support in old age were pegged to life expectancy.

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You’re Likely to Live Longer If You Retire After 65

When they looked at the sample of 2,956 people who had begun participating in the study in 1992 and retired by 2010, the researchers found that the majority had retired around age 65. But a statistical analysis showed that when people retired at age 66 instead, their mortality rates dropped by 11%.

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