What happens to the husband’s retirement decision when the wife’s retirement incentives change?

Håkan Selin

International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, vol. 24, issue 3, No 4, 432-458

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, I exploit population-wide administrative data and a Swedish occupational pension reform, which primarily affected a subgroup of female workers, to recover the effect of the wife’s retirement incentive on the husband’s retirement behavior. I estimate a sharp relative decrease in the retirement probability of 63-year-old wives who were treated by the reform. However, there was no significant response of their husbands, and this finding is surprisingly robust. This suggests that cross-effects (from the wife to the husband) are substantially smaller than the direct effects of the wife’s own incentive on the wife’s retirement.

Keywords: Joint retirement; Retirement age; Occupational pensions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J13 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Working Paper: What Happens to the Husband's Retirement Decision when the Wife's Retirement Incentives Change? (2012)
Working Paper: What happens to the husband’s retirement decision when the wife’s retirement incentives change? (2011)
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