TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Doorley, Karina
AU  - Stancanelli, Elena G. F.
        TI  - Marital Status and Retirement: An Empirical Study for France
        PY  - 2019/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12299
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12299
        AB  - 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 stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage status, using Census data. While we cannot claim causality, we find that retirement correlates negatively with the marriage probability of men, and the more so for men with less than high school education.
        KW  - ageing
KW  - retirement
KW  - divorce
        ER  -