{"title":"Retirement decision and household’s gasoline consumption: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design","authors":"Nicola Francescutto","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108374","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>I employ household-level data over 2006–2017 to quantify the impact of retirement on gasoline consumption. Based on a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, I show that gasoline consumption declines by 32–36 percent on average over my different specifications. The reduction reaches 59–66 percent when I restrict the sample to single-person households. I further find that the probability to use any gasoline decreases by 5–6 percent at retirement (13–16 percent for single-person households). These findings suggest that demographic trends represent an important driver of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions associated with private mobility in developed countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 108374"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Energy Economics","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325001987","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/3/11 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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I employ household-level data over 2006–2017 to quantify the impact of retirement on gasoline consumption. Based on a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, I show that gasoline consumption declines by 32–36 percent on average over my different specifications. The reduction reaches 59–66 percent when I restrict the sample to single-person households. I further find that the probability to use any gasoline decreases by 5–6 percent at retirement (13–16 percent for single-person households). These findings suggest that demographic trends represent an important driver of CO2 emissions associated with private mobility in developed countries.
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Energy Economics is a field journal that focuses on energy economics and energy finance. It covers various themes including the exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. The journal welcomes contributions that utilize diverse methods such as experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models. It publishes a combination of papers employing different methods to explore a wide range of topics. The journal's replication policy encourages the submission of replication studies, wherein researchers reproduce and extend the key results of original studies while explaining any differences. Energy Economics is indexed and abstracted in several databases including Environmental Abstracts, Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, GEOBASE, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, INSPEC, and more.
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