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Mandatory retirement and the consumption puzzle: Prices decline or quantities decline?

This paper investigates household consumption changes at retirement by utilizing a comprehensive, diary-based household survey from China. The survey contains both consumption quantity and price information, which permits separating quantity changes from price changes. The mandatory retirement policy in China provides a quasi-experimental setting for identification of the true causal effects of fully anticipated retirement. Using regression discontinuity models, we show that food expenditure declines at retirement, particularly among the low-education group, and that the decline is driven by price declines instead of quantity declines. Shopping time for food increases at retirement, consistent with the price and quantity changes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Upjohn Institute Working Paper ; No. 16-251

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Retirement; Retirement Policies
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Thema
Retirement-consumption puzzle
Mandatory retirement
Regression discontinuity
Consumption vs. expenditure
Time use
Home production

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dong, Yingying
Yang, Dennis Tao
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
(wo)
Kalamazoo, MI
(wann)
2016

DOI
doi:10.17848/wp16-251
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dong, Yingying
  • Yang, Dennis Tao
  • W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Entstanden

  • 2016

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