Couples' Retirement under Individual Pension Design: A Regression Discontinuity Study for France

Elena Stancanelli

No 10322, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate the effects of a French pension reform on spouses' employment decisions. We use labor-force survey data, pooled over different years, on fifty thousand French couples and apply a regression discontinuity framework, also controlling for couple's unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife's retirement probability also drops by 1 to 4 percentage points if the husband is hit by the reform, and vice-versa. Instrumenting spousal retirement with legal retirement age, own retirement probability rises by 2 to 6 percentage points upon spousal retirement.

Keywords: policy evaluation; retirement; ageing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C36 D04 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2016-10
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Published - published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 14-26

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