We estimate the causal effects of retirement on health services utilization in Vietnam. Using authorized retirement ages as instruments for exogenous changes in retirement, we find positive and strong effects of retirement on outpatient health services in the public health sector. Retirement increases the probability of an outpatient visit by 51 percentage points for males and 36 percentage points for females, and the frequency of outpatient visits by 1.4 times for males and 2 times for females. However, we find no effect on the use of public inpatient services as well as private health services.

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低收入国家的退休和医疗服务利用*

我们估计了退休对越南医疗服务利用的因果影响。使用授权退休年龄作为退休外生变化的工具，我们发现退休对公共卫生部门的门诊医疗服务产生积极而强烈的影响。退休后，男性门诊概率增加51个百分点，女性增加36个百分点，门诊频率男性增加1.4倍，女性增加2倍。但是，我们发现对公共住院服务和私人医疗服务的使用没有影响。