1/4 Two new IAB discussion papers! (adjusted for visually impaired readers)
I study a reform that raised the age at which women could claim pensions by 3 years in Germany.

3/3. Women are more likely to remain employed at older ages when their peers do, with stronger effects in West Germany, with its traditional gender norms. Gender-neutral pension reforms thus amplify their impact through peer influence, fostering regional convergence in late-career employment.

2/3. The reform raised women’s earliest claiming age from 60 to 63 for cohorts born in 1952 onward. Using the universe of workgroups from social security records, I compare women whose peers were just above or below the reform cutoff.

@rfberlin.bsky.social Meet me on June 5, at “RFBerlin Workshop on the Economics of Aging”!
I am presenting my paper about firm perspective on raising women’s retirement age in Germany, worker substitutability, and direct and spillover effects of raised retirement ages on the workforce.

New working paper "Retirement Age Reforms and Worker
Substitutability: Implications
for Employment of Older Workers"! Paper link: cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp794...
How do firms respond when early retirement options vanish? I study a German reform that raised the early retirement age for women.

I am presenting my JMP at the European Winter Meeting of Econometric Society on Tuesday Dec 17, at 13:30! The paper examines how raising women’s retirement age impacts younger coworkers' career opportunities in firms and confirms that coworkers’ careers are interdependent. #EWMES

I am honored and grateful to have received the 2nd prize of The Young Economist of 2024 in the Czech Republic Award (issued by the Czech Economic Society) for my paper "Firm Responses to Raising Women's Retirement Age." [1/3]