MANDATORY RETIREMENT AND THE CONSUMPTION PUZZLE: DISENTANGLING PRICE AND QUANTITY DECLINES

This study investigates changes in household consumption at retirement based on a comprehensive, diary‐based household survey from China. We focus on disentangling price changes from quantity changes at retirement. The mandatory retirement policy in China provides a quasi‐experimental setting for no...

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Published in:Economic inquiry 2017-10, Vol.55 (4), p.1738-1758
Main Authors: Dong, Yingying, Yang, Dennis Tao
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Consumer research
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Discontinuity
Households
Leisure
Mandatory retirement
Methods
Prices
Quasi-experimental methods
Retirement age
Retirement policies
Shopping
Time use
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Households
Leisure
Mandatory retirement
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Prices
Quasi-experimental methods
Retirement age
Retirement policies
Shopping
Time use
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