Your Retirement and My Health Behavior: Evidence on Retirement Externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design

Tobias Mueller and Mujaheed Shaikh

Diskussionsschriften from Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft

Abstract: This paper presents evidence on intra-household retirement externalities by assessing the causal e ect of spousal retirement on various health behaviors and health status across 19 European countries. We identify partner's and own retirement e ects by applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design using retirement eligibility as exogenous instruments for spousal and own retirement status. We find significant increases in the frequency and intensity of alcohol consumption combined with a significant decrease in moderate physical activities as a response to partner's retirement. In line with the existing literature, we find that own retirement has significant positive e ects on engaging in moderate and vigorous physical activities but also leads to a significant increase in the frequency of alcohol intake. Overall, subjective health is negatively a ected by spousal retirement and positively by own retirement.

Keywords: Retirement Externalities; Health behavior; Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 I12 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08
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Journal Article: Your retirement and my health behavior: Evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design (2018)
Working Paper: Your Retirement and My Health Behaviour: Evidence on Retirement Externalities from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (2016)
Working Paper: Your Retirement and My Health Behaviour: Evidence on Retirement Externalities from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (2016)
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