ArticleReview of economics of the household2022
Does retirement reduce familiarity with Information and Communication Technology?
Article in Review of economics of the household, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Digital Health Literacy in Patients With Common Chronic Diseases: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- How do people living with psychotic disorders access and use information and communication technology: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Changing Technology Use, Confidence, and Support Needs Among Older Adults in United Kingdom Retirement Villages: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Paid work participation and cognitive function trajectories among older adults in China: evidence from a longitudinal study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Revealing the nuances of 'Grey Digital Divide' in Hong Kong: A latent profile analysis.PloS one · 2025Article
- Online health information seeking behavior, healthcare access, and health status during exceptional times.Journal of economic behavior & organization · 2024Article
- Effects of digital skills and other individual factors on retirement decision-making and their gender differences.European journal of ageing · 2023Article
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Abstract
This paper analyses the effect of retirement on the familiarity with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) of older individuals. We argue that inability to cope with ICT might represent a threat for older individuals' social inclusion. To account for the potential endogeneity of retirement with respect to familiarity with ICT, we instrument retirement decision with the age-eligibility for early and statutory retirement pension schemes. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we show that retirement reduces the computer literacy and the frequency of internet utilization for men and women. This finding is robust to the inclusion as control factors of health, cognition and social network indicators, which the literature has shown to be affected by retirement. Overall, the reduction in the familiarity with ICT after retirement tends to be stronger in the long-run.
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