stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage …

their use for policy design is often limited by the difficulty in extrapolating on the basis of reduced-form estimates of … structure on a regression discontinuity (RD) design. The RD estimation exploits the fact that childless single individuals under … 25 years of age are not eligible for social assistance in France. The behavioral model is identified by the discontinuity …

considerably larger than those which matter for outcomes (i.e. close neighbours). Several institutional features of France enable …

introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter …