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 …

-mandatory retirement savings. Therefore we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in Germany taking … model, showing that the possession of retirement saving accounts among spouses is positively correlated, hinting at a …. These results additionally show a "crowding-in" of total retirement savings amounts between spouses, probably due to some …

This paper examines the implications of providing care to elderly parents for adult children's retirement plans using … microdata from a Japanese survey. We find no significant effect of caregiving on family caregivers' planned retirement age if we … do not take into account caregiving intensity but find a negative and significant effect on retirement plans for …