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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

  • Elena Stancanelli
  • Arthur Van Soest
American Economic Review
vol. 102, no. 3, May 2012
(pp. 600–605)
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Abstract

Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption with home production, but do not consider joint behavior of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production for both partners in a couple. Our identification strategy exploits the earliest age retirement laws in France, enabling a fuzzy regression discontinuity approach. We find that own retirement significantly increases own hours of home production and the effect is larger for men than for women. Moreover, retirement of the female partner significantly reduces male hours of home production but not vice versa.

Citation

Stancanelli, Elena, and Arthur Van Soest. 2012. "Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach." American Economic Review, 102 (3): 600–605. DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.3.600

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JEL Classification

  • J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
  • J26 Retirement; Retirement Policies
  • D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation