Using data from China's Urban Household Survey and exploiting China's mandatory retirement policy, we use the regression discontinuity approach to estimate the impact of retirement on household non-durable expenditures. Retirement reduces total non-durable expenditures by about 21 percent. Among...

We estimate the effects of spousal labor supply on individuals' labor supply by using the 1994–1995 initiation of China's workweek reduction policy as a natural experiment. We find that an increase in the labor supply of wives significantly reduced the labor supply of husbands, but an increase...