Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Elena Stancanelli () and Arthur van Soest ()
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Elena Stancanelli: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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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.

Keywords: production; domestique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05
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Published in American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), pp.600-605. ⟨10.1257/aer.102.3.600⟩

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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 (2011)
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DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.3.600

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