Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called “retirement consumption puzzle”. Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife, thus distinguishing households in which the wife is...

The economic litterature on retirement argues that individuals in a couple tend to retire at a choice time because of externalities in leisure. Ealier studies dit not investigate the extent to which partners actually spend more leisure time together upon retiring. Exploiting the law on early...

This paper aims at carrying out an international comparison of fathers’ caring time. The time fathers dedicate to caring for their children is typically constrained by the longer working hours culture and the lesser incentives for fathers to take up childcare leave. This paper draws a...

This paper provides new estimates of the impact of the French tax credit on the employment outcomes of women. We model simultaneously the employment probability and the determinants of programme eligibility. We improve on earlier studies in this field that, using a single evaluation equation...

Alors que l’économie française a connu en 2003 sa plus faible croissance depuis la récession de 1993, elle retrouve en 2004 une croissance de 2,4 % (tableau 1). Bien qu’accompagné au deuxième trimestre par les dépenses d’investissement, ce redémarrage de l’économie résulte pour...

Avec 5 % en moyenne annuelle, la croissance mondiale a été exceptionnelle en 2004. Après avoir traversé bien des turbulences, l’économie mondiale confirme que la reprise de 2003 n’était pas un feu de paille. Les années 2005 et 2006 devraient conforter le mouvement, à un rythme...

Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption with home production, but do not consider joint behavior of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production for both partners in a couple. Our identification...

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....