This paper investigates household consumption changes at retirement by utilizing a comprehensive, diary-based household survey from China. The survey contains both consumption quantity and price information, which permits separating quantity changes from price changes. The mandatory retirement...

The standard regression discontinuity (RD) design deals with a binary treatment. Manyempirical applications of RD designs involve continuous treatments. This paper establishesidentification and robust bias-corrected inference for such RD design. Causal identificationis achieved by utilizing any...