We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement decisions are correlated with unobserved characteristics...

Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behavior of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...

In this paper we use the actual rules and formulas of an occupational pension fund, the state pension fund and the tax system in the Netherlands to calculate net replacement rates at each age from 60 to 70 in full and partial retirement scenarios. We then vary the parameters of the pension...

We analyze stated preference data on retirement. Survey respondents of ages 25 and older in the Netherlands were given hypothetical retirement scenarios describing the age(s) of (partial and full) retirement and corresponding replacement rates. Several types of retirement trajectories were...