@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10322, author={Stancanelli, Elena G. F.}, title={Couples' Retirement under Individual Pension Design: A Regression Discontinuity Study for France}, year={2016}, month={Oct}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={10322}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10322}, abstract={Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate the effects of a French pension reform on spouses' employment decisions. We use labor-force survey data, pooled over different years, on fifty thousand French couples and apply a regression discontinuity framework, also controlling for couple'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 spousal retirement with legal retirement age, own retirement probability rises by 2 to 6 percentage points upon spousal retirement.}, keywords={policy evaluation;retirement;ageing}, }