The unequal burden of retirement reform: Evidence from Australia
利用澳大利亚提高女性养老金领取年龄的改革，发现该政策虽减少政府支出，但贫困家庭收入受损更重，导致相对贫困率上升约4个百分点，不平等指标增加6%至19%。
Abstract As governments try to contain rising expenditure on retirement pensions by increasing eligibility ages, there are concerns that such reforms disproportionately affect poorer households. Using detailed longitudinal data, I examine this trade‐off in the context of an Australian reform that increased women’s pension‐eligibility age from 60 to 65. While this reform significantly reduced government spending on women at affected ages, the negative effects on household incomes were concentrated among poorer households. These unequal impacts meant that the reform temporarily increased relative poverty rates among affected women by around four percentage points and inequality measures by 6% to 19%.