Retirement decision and household’s gasoline consumption: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Nicola Francescutto

Energy Economics, 2025, vol. 144, issue C

Abstract: I employ household-level data over 2006–2017 to quantify the impact of retirement on gasoline consumption. Based on a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, I show that gasoline consumption declines by 32–36 percent on average over my different specifications. The reduction reaches 59–66 percent when I restrict the sample to single-person households. I further find that the probability to use any gasoline decreases by 5–6 percent at retirement (13–16 percent for single-person households). These findings suggest that demographic trends represent an important driver of CO2 emissions associated with private mobility in developed countries.

Keywords: Gasoline consumption; Retirement effect; Household expenditure survey; Fuzzy regression discontinuity design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C23 D12 Q4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108374

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