“…26 Control variables have been selected following previous studies and include gender (van Solinge, 2012), education (Petoska and Earl, 2009), Marital status (Szinovacz and DeViney, 2000), health (Bloom et al, 2005;Davey, 2008), cognitive ability (Parker et al, 2013), income and wealth (Aranki and Macchiarelli, 2013), planning and personal assets (Colie and Gruber, 2007;Whitaker and Bokemeier, 2014), family related variables (Szinovacz et al, 2001;Damman et al, 2015).…”