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Publications of the Project: Junior research group “Time policy – how can social policy help to manage critical phases over the life course?”

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  • Diskussionspapiere 1809 / 2019

    Time to Care? The Effects of Retirement on Informal Care Provision

    This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care provision. Using SOEP data from the years 2001- 2016 the analysis addresses fundamental endogeneity problems by applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We exploit early retirement thresholds for women in the German pension system as instruments for their retirement decision. We ...

    2019| Björn Fischer, Kai-Uwe Müller
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Time to Care? The Effects of Retirement on Informal Care Provision

    This paper analyzes the impact of women's retirement on their informal care provision. Using SOEP data, we address fundamental endogeneity problems by exploiting variation in the German pension system in two complementary ways. We find a significant effect of retirement on informal care provision, when using early retirement age thresholds as instruments. Heterogeneity analyses confirm the underlying ...

    In: Journal of Health Economics 73 (2020), 102350 | Björn Fischer, Kai-Uwe Müller
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