, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since …

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) approach how a new pension program impacts inter vivos transfers. We show that pension benefits lower the propensity …

automatically granted a more generous old-age pension benefits replacement rate, called the household replacement rate. Following a … promoting (harming) pension sustainability and furthermore, we analyse the role of the household replacement rate in old … recommendation of the Belgian Pension Reform Committee, this policy is to be suppressed for new pensioners, except for those …

We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … employment characteristics of women and men, we are able to identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the …

This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on … individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to … single countries, and general patterns are rarely explored. Cross-country evidence on gender gaps in paid work, unpaid work …

Using a new measure of the strength of gender stereotypes defined at the individual level and based on responses to a …

women, and one explanation for this gender gap is based on household responsibilities falling on women. But most of the …Prior literature analyzing gender differences in commuting has reported that men commute longer distance/time than do … literature examining gender differences in commuting has not considered the interdependence that exists between the members of …

change in the Swedish pension system that highlighted a five-year payout on the expense of a life annuity not only increased …

This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation … introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …

using China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of the largest existing pension program in the world. Since its launch in … Study (CHARLS) to examine the effect of pension receipt on two dimensions of neighborhood cohesion among older adults, i …, our empirical strategy addresses the endogeneity of pension receipt via exploiting geographic variation in pension program …