Welcome!

I am a Ph.D. student in economics at University of Mannheim.

My research interests are in Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics and Behavioral Economics.

I currently work on questions around savings decisions and retirement behavior.

Here is my CV . Please don’t hesitate to reach out – emre.oral[at]uni-mannheim.de

Research

Working Papers

• The Social Multiplier of Pension Reform (with Simon Rabaté and Arthur Seibold)
  We study the influence of family members, neighbors and coworkers on retirement behavior. To estimate causal retirement spillovers between individuals, we exploit a pension reform in the Netherlands that creates exogenous variation in peers’ retirement ages, and we use administrative data on the full Dutch population. We find large spillovers in couples, primarily due to women reacting to their husband’s retirement choices. Consistent with homophily in social interactions, the influence of the average sibling, neighbor and coworker is modest, but sizable spillovers emerge between similar individuals in these groups. Additional evidence suggests both leisure complementarities and the transmission of social norms as mechanisms behind retirement spillovers. Our findings imply that pension reforms have a large social multiplier, amplifying their overall impact on retirement behavior by 40%.

Work in Progress

• Savings in Retirement
• Behavioral Adjustments to Retirement Reforms

Address:
University of Mannheim
Department of Economics
L7 3-5, Room S03/04
68161 Mannheim, Germany