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The effect of a wife’s retirement on her husband’s mental health

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  • Kadir Atalay
  • Rong Zhu

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This article examines the effect of wives’ retirement on their husband’s mental health in Australia. By exploiting the exogenous variations in women’s retirement induced by the age pension qualifying ages, we find that spousal retirement status has a positive impact on the mental health of older men. This beneficial impact is found to strengthen with wives’ time spent in retirement. We show that wife’s retirement affects the constituents of her husband’s mental well-being in different ways. We also have identified four channels for the positive linkage between older women’s retirement and the mental health of their spouse.

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  • Kadir Atalay & Rong Zhu, 2018. "The effect of a wife’s retirement on her husband’s mental health," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(43), pages 4606-4616, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:50:y:2018:i:43:p:4606-4616
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2018.1458198
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    1. Mattia Filomena & Matteo Picchio, 2023. "Retirement and health outcomes in a meta‐analytical framework," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(4), pages 1120-1155, September.
    2. Nathan Kettlewell & Jack Lam, 2022. "Retirement, social support and mental well-being: a couple-level analysis," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 23(3), pages 511-535, April.
    3. Ohto Kanninen & Terhi Ravaska & Jon Gruber & Satu Nivalainen & Roope Uusitalo, 2019. "The Effect of Relabeling and Incentives on Retirement: Evidence from the Finnish Pension Reform in 2005," Working Papers 328, Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE.
    4. Messe, Pierre-Jean & Wolff, François-Charles, 2019. "The short-term effects of retirement on health within couples: Evidence from France," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 221(C), pages 27-39.
    5. Steve Briand, 2020. "Beyond the direct impact of retirement: coordination by couples in preventive and risky behaviors," Working Papers hal-02467440, HAL.
    6. Chen, Xi, 2022. "The impact of spousal and own retirement on health: Evidence from urban China," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).
    7. Kadir Atalay & Garry Barrett, 2022. "Retirement routes and the well-being of retirees," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 63(5), pages 2751-2784, November.

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