gender gap in earnings that persists beyond the benefit period for at least nine years after the birth. The longerterm …

effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ … retirement model. We find that labor market participation and retirement behavior in general are strongly influenced by the level …

How to invest and decumulate wealth during retirement has far-reaching consequences for consumption during retirement … investigate the choice between phased withdrawal plans with varying riskiness resulting in volatile retirement income. We find … that 40% of the participants choose some risk and thus, accept fluctuations in retirement income. Second, we analyze the …

-related behaviour and expectations, with gender differences. Cooperative partners expect higher standards of living in retirement … pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … have lower (higher) expected standards of living in retirement, due to the uncertainty regarding intrahousehold resource …

The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found … relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the … for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …

We document a substantial gender gap in China's gender-blind university admissions system: equally qualified female … concentrated among students with strong gender stereotype beliefs and disappears among those with weak stereotype beliefs. Our … findings demonstrate that gender-blind institutional design alone is insufficient to ensure equal access when men and women …