Tag: women's income
Abstract We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4 percent per child born before January 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories, we implement a difference-in-differences design comparing women…
Women’s adult years spent as part of a couple declined sharply. People are often interested in studying the saving behavior of women. I have generally resisted that approach because women have traditionally lived in households where the couple makes decisions jointly. In that world, I would think that married women and single women would look…