Older Mothers' Employment and Marriage Stability When the Nest Is Empty

Hippolyte d'Albis, Karina Doorley and Elena G. F. Stancanelli ()
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Elena G. F. Stancanelli: Paris School of Economics

No 15272, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: A significant literature in the social sciences addresses the impact of child-bearing and rearing on marital stability and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' employment and marriage patterns when the adult children leave the parental nest. This study aims to shed light on these issues using longitudinal labour force data for France. Exploiting retirement laws for identification purposes, and taking a regression discontinuity approach, we find that older women's retirement probability is positively associated with an empty nest. We also conclude that an empty nest is negatively associated with older mothers' marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest.

Keywords: divorce; ageing; retirement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J14 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2022-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dem, nep-eur and nep-lma
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Published - published in: Molina, J.A. (eds), Mothers in the Labor Market , Springer, 2022, 247 - 269

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