Female labor supply and rural pension eligibility in Brazil

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Khanna, Gaurav; Lay, Margaret J.; Lee, Stephanie; Thompson, Benjamin
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California San Diego; Mount Holyoke College; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105352
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: public pensions; retirement; female labor supply

摘要

In 1991, Brazil expanded its rural retirement pension to cover millions of previously uncovered women, conditional on work requirements. We use a difference-in-differences approach to show that this expansion drastically increased married women's employment by nine percentage points, or 26 percent. This increase in labor force participation occurred among women who were immediately age-eligible, and among younger cohorts that would be eligible in the future. These results illuminate the capacity of workers to respond to financial incentives for labor participation, and the extent to which younger workers might be forward-looking as they respond to retirement incentives.