stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage …We argue that retirement from work may affect marital status according to the predictions of quite standard economic … models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage …

Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate …'s unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife …'s retirement probability also drops by 1 to 4 percentage points if the husband is hit by the reform, and vice-versa. Instrumenting …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France … individual's retirement behavior would have been if only one retirement route had existed and in the absence of constraints on … work capabilities. We show that average years of work between 55 and 64 are nearly 14% greater when regular retirement …

As most developed countries, France has gone over the last 20 years through a process of pension system reforms, mainly … aiming at increasing the average retirement age, through increasing the required number of contribution years or through … postponing legal (minimal and/or normal) ages. Public debates over which lever should be preferred have been paramount in France …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …, building upon Stock and Wise (1990) option value approach. The model accounts for three main retirement routes: the normal … retirement, disability insurance (DI) and unemployment/preretirement pathways, and is estimated with a combination of …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …, building upon Stock and Wise (1990) option value approach. The model accounts for three main retirement routes: the normal … retirement, disability insurance (DI) and unemployment/preretirement pathways, and is estimated with a combination of …