Externalities in leisure are considered an important reason for partners' joint retirement. This study quantifies the … extent to which partners actually spend more leisure time "together" at retirement. Exploiting legal retirement age in France …, we identify the effect of retirement on partners' hours of leisure, distinguishing leisure hours spent together or not …

such as those around retirement should not affect consumption. However, we first recall that given higher leisure …We revisit the alleged retirement consumption puzzle. According to the life-cycle theory, foreseeable income reductions … endowments after retirement, the theory does predict a fall of total market consumption expenditures. In order not to mistake …

related to exercise. We combine the theory of time allocation with the theory of conspicuous leisure in a growth model … USA, as well as the positive correlation between obesity and income per worker in developing countries, and the negative … numerical simulations of the static and dynamic obesity Kuznets curves for the USA. We show that while exercise choices have …

care, and leisure. The chapter concludes with a discussion of why these patterns are important to macroeconomics and spells …

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 … own retirement significantly increases the amounts of home production. There are negative cross-effects of retirement on …