Doorley, Karina and Stancanelli, Elena (2019) Marital Status and Retirement: An Empirical Study for France. ESRI DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 12299, April 2019. [Discussion Paper]
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Abstract
We argue that retirement from work may affect marital status according to the predictions of quite standard economic models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage status, using Census data. While we cannot claim causality, we find that retirement correlates negatively with the marriage probability of men, and the more so for men with less than high school education.
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| Item Type: | Discussion Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ageing, retirement, divorce |
| Subjects for non-EU documents: | EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > social policy > families and children Countries > France EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > social policy > general |
| Subjects for EU documents: | UNSPECIFIED |
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| EU Annual Reports: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Series: | Series > Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin > ESRI Discussion Paper |
| Depositing User: | Phil Wilkin |
| Official EU Document: | No |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Dec 2019 10:55 |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Dec 2019 10:59 |
| URI: | http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/101782 |
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