Xue, Xindong; Ye, Chunchen; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2026
We study the effect of retirement on social capital in urban China. Using three waves of the China Family Panel Studies … retirement does not raise or lower social capital uniformly but reallocates it. Retirement causes bridging social capital to fall … and bonding social capital to rise. The reallocation is concentrated among men, whose pre-retirement networks are more …