Retirement and home production: A regression discontinuity approach

Elena Stancanelli and Arthur van Soest ()

No 2011-28, Documents de Travail de l'OFCE from Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE)

Abstract: Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of 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.

Keywords: House work; Ageing; Retirement; Regression Discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 D13 J14 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
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Journal Article: Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (2012)
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Working Paper: Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (2012)
Working Paper: Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (2012)
Working Paper: Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (2011)
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