Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end …

neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home. We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting … different than synthetic pairs but the difference gets smaller with time, indicating a quicker attenuation of the family effect …

market wage and a lower bargaining power within the family with respect to sons. Consequently, they provide more informal …. Transfers within the family should be distorted in both types of families. …

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by …

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 …

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 …