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Why does consumption fall at retirement? Evidence from Germany

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  1. Pagel, Michaela, 2013. "Expectations-Based Reference-Dependent Life-Cycle Consumption," MPRA Paper 47138, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  2. Lührmann Melanie, 2010. "Consumer Expenditures and Home Production at Retirement – New Evidence from Germany," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 11(2), pages 225-245, May.
  3. Miriam Beblo & Sven Schreiber, 2022. "Leisure and housing consumption after retirement: new evidence on the life-cycle hypothesis," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 305-330, March.
  4. Chen, Qihui & Deng, Tinghe & Bai, Junfei & He, Xiurong, 2017. "Understanding the retirement-consumption puzzle through the lens of food consumption-fuzzy regression-discontinuity evidence from urban China," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 45-61.
  5. Bairoliya, Neha & McKiernan, Kathleen, 2024. "The welfare costs of misinformation," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
  6. Jonathan Skinner, 2007. "Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 21(3), pages 59-80, Summer.
  7. Zhu, Penghu & Lin, Boqiang, 2022. "Do the elderly consume more energy? Evidence from the retirement policy in urban China," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
  8. Ludmila Nivorozhkina & Anton Nivorozhkin & Kamilla Abazieva, 2010. "Drop in consumption associated with retirement. The regression discontinuity design approach," Applied Econometrics, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), vol. 19(3), pages 112-126.
  9. Fé, Eduardo, 2025. "Bounds for average treatment effect on couples with an application to the retirement-consumption puzzle," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 247(C).
  10. Jim Been & Susann Rohwedder & Michael Hurd, 2020. "Does Home Production Replace Consumption Spending? Evidence from Shocks in Housing Wealth in the Great Recession," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 102(1), pages 113-128, March.
  11. Olafsson, Arna & Pagel, Michaela, 2024. "Retirement puzzles: New evidence from personal finances," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 234(C).
  12. Dutt, Satyajit & Radermacher, Jan W., 2023. "Age, wealth, and the MPC in Europe: A supervised machine learning approach," SAFE Working Paper Series 383, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
  13. Lin He & Zongxia Liang & Yilun Song & Qi Ye, 2021. "Optimal Retirement Time and Consumption with the Variation in Habitual Persistence," Papers 2103.16800, arXiv.org.
  14. Aydilek, Asiye, 2016. "The allocation of time and puzzling profiles of the elderly," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 515-526.
  15. He, Lin & Liang, Zongxia & Song, Yilun & Ye, Qi, 2022. "Optimal asset allocation, consumption and retirement time with the variation in habitual persistence," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 188-202.
  16. Ioannis Laliotis & Mujaheed Shaikh & Charitini Stavropoulou & Dimitrios Kourouklis, 2023. "Retirement and Household Expenditure in Turbulent Times," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 44(4), pages 968-989, December.
  17. Álvaro Muñiz-Fernández & Guillermo Cabanillas-Jiménez, 2025. "Expenditure behaviour of pensioners: exploring differences between breadwinners and non-breadwinners," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 77(3), pages 619-636.
  18. Toshiyuki Uemura & Yoshimi Adachi & Tomoki Kitamura, 2017. "Effects of Individual Resident Tax on the Consumption of Near-Retired Households in Japan," Discussion Paper Series 161, School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University, revised May 2017.
  19. Klos, Alexander & Rottke, Simon, 2013. "Saving and Consumption When Children Move Out," VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order 79786, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  20. Jonathan Fisher & Joseph Marchand, 2014. "Does the retirement consumption puzzle differ across the distribution?," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 12(2), pages 279-296, June.
  21. Aguiar, M. & Hurst, E., 2016. "The Macroeconomics of Time Allocation," Handbook of Macroeconomics, in: J. B. Taylor & Harald Uhlig (ed.), Handbook of Macroeconomics, edition 1, volume 2, chapter 0, pages 203-253, Elsevier.
  22. Stephens, Melvin & Unayama, Takashi, 2012. "The impact of retirement on household consumption in Japan," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 26(1), pages 62-83.
  23. Arna Olafsson & Michaela Pagel, 2018. "The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: New Evidence from Personal Finances," NBER Working Papers 24405, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  24. Schmied, Julian, 2023. "The replacement rate that maintains income satisfaction through retirement: The question of income-dependence," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 26(C).
  25. Drescher, Larissa S. & Roosen, Jutta, 2010. "An Analysis Of The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle For Food-At-Home And Away-From-Home Expenditures In Germany," 115th Joint EAAE/AAEA Seminar, September 15-17, 2010, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany 116441, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
  26. Rishabh Tyagi & Peter Eibich & Vegard F. Skirbekk, 2024. "Gender norms and partnership dissolution following involuntary job loss in Germany," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2024-027, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
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  28. Jim Been & Susann Rohwedder & Michael Hurd, 2021. "Households’ joint consumption spending and home production responses to retirement in the US," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 959-985, December.
  29. Yingying Dong & Dennis Yang, 2016. "Mandatory Retirement and the Consumption Puzzle: Prices Decline or Quantities Decline?," Upjohn Working Papers 16-251, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
  30. Kitamura, Tomoki & Adachi, Yoshimi, 2024. "Retirement consumption puzzle in Japan: Insights from pension and senior worker employment policy changes," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 29(C).
  31. Erik Hurst, 2008. "The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle," NBER Working Papers 13789, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  32. Daniel Burkhard, 2015. "Consumption smoothing at retirement: average and quantile treatment effects in the regression discontinuity design," Diskussionsschriften dp1512, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft.
  33. Murray, Tim & Dunn, Richard A., 2022. "Household production, home improvement, and housing investment among older Americans," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C).
  34. Bonsang, Eric & van Soest, Arthur, 2020. "Time devoted to home production and retirement in couples: A panel data analysis," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
  35. van der Heijden, E.C.M. & Koç, E. & Ligthart, J.E. & Meijdam, A.C., 2015. "Pensions and Consumption Decisions: : Evidence From the Lab," Discussion Paper 2015-014, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
  36. Yingying Dong & Dennis Tao Yang, 2017. "Mandatory Retirement And The Consumption Puzzle: Disentangling Price And Quantity Declines," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 55(4), pages 1738-1758, October.
  37. Bakken, Line Smart, 2006. "The Golden Age of Retirement," Memorandum 22/2006, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
  38. Francescutto, Nicola, 2025. "Retirement decision and household’s gasoline consumption: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
  39. Li, Hongbin & Shi, Xinzheng & Wu, Binzhen, 2016. "The retirement consumption puzzle revisited: Evidence from the mandatory retirement policy in China," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(3), pages 623-637.
  40. Tian, Geran & Jin, Changlun & Wu, Weixing, 2024. "Too old to spend? Understanding the consumption of the elderly in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
  41. Ciani, Emanuele, 2016. "Retirement, pension eligibility and home production," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 106-120.
  42. Velarde, Melanie & Herrmann, Roland, 2014. "How retirement changes consumption and household production of food: Lessons from German time-use data," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 3(C), pages 1-10.
  43. Bonsang, Eric & Klein, Tobias J., 2012. "Retirement and subjective well-being," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 83(3), pages 311-329.
  44. Yingying Dong, 2012. "Regression Discontinuity Applications with Rounding Errors in the Running Variable," Working Papers 111206, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics.
  45. Bonsang, Eric & van Soest, Arthur, 2015. "Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis," IZA Discussion Papers 9156, IZA Network @ LISER.
  46. Radermacher, Jan W., 2023. "Mamma Mia! Revealing hidden heterogeneity by PCA-biplot: MPC puzzle for Italy's elderly poor," SAFE Working Paper Series 382, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
  47. Barry R. Cobb & Tim Murray & Jeffrey S. Smith, 2022. "Adjustable consumption model for retirees to balance spending and risk," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, vol. 46(2), pages 420-451, April.
  48. Beznoska, Martin & Steiner, Viktor, 2012. "Does consumption decline at retirement? Evidence from repeated cross-section data for Germany," Discussion Papers 2012/14, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
  49. Fehr, Hans & Kallweit, Manuel & Kindermann, Fabian, 2017. "Families and social security," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 30-56.
  50. Jonathan Fisher & Joseph Marchand, 2014. "Does the retirement consumption puzzle differ across the distribution?," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 12(2), pages 279-296, June.
  51. María José Luengo-Prado & Almudena Sevilla-Sanz, 2010. "Consumption, retirement and life-cycle prices: Evidence from Spain," Working Papers 2010-18, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) Ciencias Sociales.
  52. Nicola Francescutto, 2024. "Retirement decision and household's gasoline consumption: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design," IRENE Working Papers 24-01, IRENE Institute of Economic Research.
  53. Patrick Moran & Martin Orquote Connell & Cormac Orquote Dea & Francesca Parodi, 2021. "Heterogeneity in Household Spending and Well-being around Retirement," Working Papers wp427, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
  54. Martina Šimková & Jaroslav Sixta, 2013. "The Development of the Standard of Living of Czech Pensioners [Vývoj životní úrovně osob v důchodovém věku]," Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2013(3), pages 14-31.
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