Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; Nivorozhkin, Anton; Abazieva, Kamilla - In: Applied Econometrics 19 (2010) 3, pp. 112-126
In this paper we investigate the size of the consumption drop in Russia We use micro data on the household consumption … use the regression discontinuity design and impose an identifying assumption that consumption would be the same around the … threshold of pension eligibility if individuals did not retire We estimate that a 20 6 percent drop in consumption is associated …