Arbeitspapier

Retirement and home production: A regression discontinuity approach

Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of 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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6229

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Retirement; Retirement Policies
Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
Thema
time allocation
house work
couples
Altersgrenze
Haushaltsproduktion
Zeitverwendung
Frankreich

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.
van Soest, Arthur
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201202284986
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Stancanelli, Elena G. F.
  • van Soest, Arthur
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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