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17. How Does Retirement Affect Your Brain?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Are We Just Shifting the Cost of Social Security?

Norma co an economist and associate professor at the university of pennsylvania pearlman school of medicine. She came to this question from a health policy perspective. Back in 19 83, the us. Gradually increased the age at which people could claim their full social security benefits from aght 65 to 67. But if you actually look and use these early retirement windows, we did not find that retirement had a big impact on cognition.

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