- Date17 October 2025
- Time 11h00 - 12h30
- Room Auditorium 4
Résumé
We study the influence of family members, neighbors and coworkers on retirement behavior. To estimate causal retirement spillovers between individuals, we exploit a pension reform in the Netherlands that creates exogenous variation in peers' retirement ages, and we use administrative data on the full Dutch population. We find large spillovers in couples, primarily due to women reacting to their husband's retirement choices. Consistent with homophily in social interactions, the influence of the average sibling, neighbor and coworker is modest, but sizable spillovers emerge between similar individuals in these groups. Additional evidence suggests both leisure complementarities and the transmission of social norms as mechanisms behind retirement spillovers. Our findings imply that pension reforms have a large social multiplier, amplifying their overall impact on retirement behavior by 40%.
Other seminars
Past
Tax Evasion, Exclusionary Practices, and Competition Policy
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Seminar
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Industrial Organization seminar
Public Economics Seminar
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Date 9 September 2026
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Martin Besfamille (Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile)
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Past
Dying Better: Hospice Care and the End of Life
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Seminar
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 11 December 2025
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Yunan Ji
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Past
Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben
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Seminar
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Public Economics Seminar
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Date 5 December 2025
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Place Auditorium 4
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Speaker or organiser Felix Poege
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