To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions …, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since … the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement age from 60 to 65, but also increased ages for several early …

To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions …, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since … the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement age from 60 to 65, but also increased ages for several early …

pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement … household resources amongst each other in retirement. Finally, our data indicate that intracouple information sharing and …

data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … home production done by the partner. The fall in household income at retirement of one of the partners is largely …We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal …

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … impacts. The analysis finds that household structure is an important determinant of the behavioral and distributional impacts … increasing women's retirement age to be equal to men's …

pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement … household resources amongst each other in retirement. Finally, our data indicate that intracouple information sharing and …