The Welfare Effects of Protecting Older Workers

For helpful comments, we thank Agar Brugiavini, Esteban Garcia-Miralles, Maxime Gravoueille, Joanna Lahey, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Maria Ptashkina, Susann Rohwedder, and Han Ye, as well as seminar and conference participants at the Australian Workshop on Public Finance, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Canadian Economic Association conference, CEPAR colloquium, e61 Institute, HEC Montréal, Monash HELP conference, Monash University, Natural Experiments workshop, NBER Spring Aging meeting, Society of Labor Economists conference, Swiss Economists Abroad conference, University of Cagliari, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney and University of Queensland. The analysis presented in this paper was conducted at the Quebec Interuniversity Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS) which is part of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN). The services and activities provided by the QICSS are made possible by the financial or in-kind support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Statistics Canada, the Fonds de recherche du Québec and the Quebec universities. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the CRDCN, the QICSS or their partners. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.