2015
DOI: 10.1093/cesifo/ifv015
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Housing Wealth and Retirement Timing

Abstract: We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Office of Housing Enterprise Oversight to measure the effect of changes in housing wealth on retirement timing. Using cross-MSA variation in house-price movements to identify wealth effects on retirement timing, we find evidence that such wealth effects are present. According to some specifications the rate of transition into retirement increases in the presence of positive housing wealth shocks. In addition, we use data on expected age of retireme… Show more

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“…Many studies are concentrated on providing empirical evidence from the USA. Sevak (2002) and Farnham and Sevak (2015) show that increasing housing wealth leads to earlier retirement. Zhao and Burge (2017) exploit the 2008 financial crisis as an exogenous negative shock to housing wealth and show that the labour supply of older people, especially females, was significantly increased after the bust of housing prices.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Many studies are concentrated on providing empirical evidence from the USA. Sevak (2002) and Farnham and Sevak (2015) show that increasing housing wealth leads to earlier retirement. Zhao and Burge (2017) exploit the 2008 financial crisis as an exogenous negative shock to housing wealth and show that the labour supply of older people, especially females, was significantly increased after the bust of housing prices.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The literature has documented that the retirement decision of older people in developed countries is shaped by housing wealth ( e.g. Farnham and Sevak, 2015; Zhao and Burge, 2017). It is still not clear to what extent the labour market participation of older migrants in China depends on home ownership 3 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Brown, Coile et Weisbenner (2010) constatent que l'effet causal d'un héritage non anticipé sur la probabilité de prendre sa retraite plus tôt est significatif. Plus récemment, selon Farnham et Sevak (2016) une augmentation de 10 % du prix de l'immobilier américain avance l'âge de sortie du marché de travail de quatre mois. Sur les mêmes données mais post « grande récession », Ondrich et Falevich (2016) aboutissent à la même conclusion : la chute des prix sur le marché immobilier américain diminue la probabilité de prendre sa retraite tôt chez les hommes mariés.…”
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“…Farnham and Sevak [15] empirically estimate the impact of housing wealth on retirement timing and find that wealth effects are present. Fisher et al [16] argue that housing wealth has no impact on consumption.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%