The effect of retirement on home production: evidence from Australia

Atalay, Kadir; Barrett, Garry F.; Staneva, Anita

doi:10.1007/s11150-019-09444-3

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“…We follow previous Australian studies which use the same dataset (Zhu 2016; Atalay et al 2020) to define an individual as retired if his or her current labour market status is stated as "not in the labour force". We will test the sensitivity of the results using other alternative retirement measures in Section 5.4.…”

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Does Retirement Lead to Life Satisfaction? Causal Evidence from Fixed Effect Instrumental Variable Models

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This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently explained by improvements in satisfaction with one's financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the first 3 years. We find that the improvements in financial satisfaction upon retirement are only observed for low-income individuals. However, the wellbeing impact of retirement does not differ by gender, educational, occupational, economic or marital backgrounds. We also explore several potential explanations for our findings. This paper employs a fixed effect instrumental variable model, which exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension to construct an instrument for retirement, and 18 waves of high-quality Australian panel data. The results also suggest that failing to adequately account for the endogeneity of retirement would result in a downward-biased estimate of a positive wellbeing impact of retirement.

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“…We focus on individuals aged between 55 and 75 years old at any point during the study period, in line with the usual practice in previous Australian studies (Zhu 2016; Atalay et al 2019Atalay et al , 2020).…”

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“…The HEI is a measure of diet quality that assesses how well a set of foods aligns with key recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.4 In a related literature, researchers have found evidence that retirement increases time spent engaged in meal preparation and other housework activities(Aguiar and Hurst 2005;Aguiar and Hurst 2007b;Luengo-Prado and Sevilla 2013;Ciani 2016;Atalay et al 2020).…”

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“… 4 In a related literature, researchers have found evidence that retirement increases time spent engaged in meal preparation and other housework activities (Aguiar and Hurst 2005 ; Aguiar and Hurst 2007b ; Luengo-Prado and Sevilla 2013 ; Ciani 2016 ; Atalay et al 2020 ). …”

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The effect of working from home on major time allocations with a focus on food-related activities

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Zeballos

2020

Rev Econ Household

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Telecommuting has been on the rise in the U.S. and working from home may affect how workers allocate their time over the course of a day. In this paper, using a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) framework, we examine differences in time spent in major activities between individuals who worked from home and away from home. We use data on prime working-age adults (age 25-54 years old) who participated in the 2017-18 Leave and Job Flexibilities Module of the American Time Use Survey. Results show that prime working-age American adults who worked from home during their diary day spent less time working and on personal care, but more time on leisure, sleeping, and on food production and consumption than those who worked away from home. For instance, among individuals with a spouse or partner present, those who worked from home spent 25 more minutes engaged in food production and 48 more minutes eating and drinking at home than did individuals who worked away from home, which are large relative to the sample averages of 33 and 31 min, respectively. These results show that there is important variation in the daily time allocation of workers in their prime working years and suggest in particular that working from home may allow for substantially more time to produce food and consume food at home, which may provide teleworkers with health benefits since home-produced meals tend to be lower in calories and higher in nutrients than meals prepared away from home.

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“… 2 A related literature has also investigated the effect of retirement on time use and dealt with analogous identification issues (see Atalay et al, 2020 for a recent contribution). …”

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Does retirement reduce familiarity with Information and Communication Technology?

Cavapozzi

Bianco

2021

Rev Econ Household

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This paper analyses the effect of retirement on the familiarity with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) of older individuals. We argue that inability to cope with ICT might represent a threat for older individuals’ social inclusion. To account for the potential endogeneity of retirement with respect to familiarity with ICT, we instrument retirement decision with the age-eligibility for early and statutory retirement pension schemes. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we show that retirement reduces the computer literacy and the frequency of internet utilization for men and women. This finding is robust to the inclusion as control factors of health, cognition and social network indicators, which the literature has shown to be affected by retirement. Overall, the reduction in the familiarity with ICT after retirement tends to be stronger in the long-run.

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The effect of retirement on home production: evidence from Australia

Cited by 26 publications

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Does Retirement Lead to Life Satisfaction? Causal Evidence from Fixed Effect Instrumental Variable Models

Does Retirement Lead to Life Satisfaction? Causal Evidence from Fixed Effect Instrumental Variable Models

The effect of working from home on major time allocations with a focus on food-related activities

Does retirement reduce familiarity with Information and Communication Technology?

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