Table 4.

Linear probability model estimates of the effect of health shock on retirement for men

	Retirement includes sickness benefits	Retirement includes vocational rehabilitation benefits
Acute health event	0.081 (0.008)	0.075 (0.008)
R 2	0.117	0.118
No. of person-year observation	253,379	254,041

The dependent variable, retirement, includes sickness benefits and vocational rehabilitation benefits, respectively. Regressions include dummies for chronic illness, accident, age, education, industry/occupation, year and wealth. Standard error in parentheses