Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/196797 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12299
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
ageing
retirement
divorce
JEL: 
J12
J14
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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