TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stancanelli, Elena G. F.
AU  - Soest, Arthur van
        TI  - Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
        PY  - 2011/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6229
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6229
        AB  - Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification strategy exploits the earliest age retirement laws in France, enabling a fuzzy regression discontinuity approach. We find that own retirement significantly increases own hours of home production and the effect is larger for men than for women. Moreover, retirement of the female partner significantly reduces male hours of home production but not vice versa.
        KW  - house work
KW  - time allocation
KW  - couples
        ER  -