Study Kesavayuth et al. (2016): study GB 2005
- Public
- 50-75 aged adults,UK, followed 6 years, 2005-2011
- Survey name
- UK-BHPS combined waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 5597
- Non Response
- 39.7%
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Retirement
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- T1:2005, T2:2011
- Distribution
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N=1:2415 (men:1020, women:1395)
Average 2% unemployed, 6% disabled, 5% family care - Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Selfreported employment status
1. Retired
a) Normal retired
b) Early retired
0. Not retired
a) Disabled
b) Family care
c) Unemployed
d) Working (reference)
Observed Relation with Happiness
- Male b-fix = +.17(10)
1a)normal retired b-fix = +.14(ns)
1b)early retired b-fix = +.23(05)
- Female b-fix = +.03(ns)
1a)normal retired b-fix = -.01(ns)
1b)early retired b-fix = +.28(05)
Unaffected by personality among males
Negative among concientious females
Positive among open females
- Male b-fix = -.01(ns)
- Female b-fix = +.12(ns)
- Male b-fix = +.47(ns)
- Female b-fix = -.09(ns)
- Male b-fix = -.05(ns)
- Female b-fix = +.02(ns)
All b-fix controlled for
- big five personality
- interaction of retired and big five personality
- gender
- age
- household income
- marital status
- health problems
- educational attainment
- number of children
- region
- survey year
- Male b-IV-F = +.21(ns)
- Female b-IV-F = +.20(ns)
- Male b-IV-F = +.03(ns)
- Female b-IV-F = +.28(ns)
- Male b-IV-F = +.46(ns)
- Female b-IV-F = +.72(ns)
- Male b-IV-F = -.01(ns)
- Female b-IV-F = +.13(ns)
- Male b-IV-F = +.14(ns)
- Female b-IV-F = -.01(ns)
- Male b-IV-F = +.23(05)
- Female b-IV-F = +.28(05)
Additionally Instrumental Variable used for retirement: eligibility ages for the basic state pension in UK
Similar results when
- excluding early retirees
- additionally controlled for age squared, age cubed
- only consider those who were employed in T1 and retired at T2
- those who participated in both T1 and T2