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Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth: Evidence from Germany
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% per child born before January 1, 1992.
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Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of Macroeconomics and Development at Goethe University Frankfurt. She received her PhD in economics from Yale University, was assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, and holds an honorary doctorate from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
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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% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories, we implement a difference-in-differences design comparing women who had their first child before versus after January 1, 1992. We document significant reductions in labor earnings, driven by intensive margin responses. Our estimates imply that, on average, an extra euro of pension wealth in a given period reduces unconditional labor earnings by 54 cents. Read more …
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