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

Kadir Atalay; Rong Zhu

doi:10.1080/00036846.2018.1458198

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

Kadir Atalay, Rong Zhu

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4606-4616
Number of pages	11
Journal	Applied Economics
Volume	50
Issue number	43
Early online date	2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2018.1458198
Publication status	Published - 14 Sep 2018

Keywords

mental health
pension age eligibility
Retirement
spillover effect

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