We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …

expenditures and needs in retirement reduced their non-housing saving rate by 3 percentage points. The size of the effect is …

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives ́probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …

We examine within a life-cycle set-up the simultaneous choice of health care and retirement (together with consumption …), when health care contributes to both a reduction in mortality and in morbidity. Health tends to impact on retirement via … morbidity, determining the disutility of work, and through longevity, determining the need to accumulate retirement wealth. In …

Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …