Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van

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“…For instance, in the UK around 5% of the 20-24 year old have a long standing disability and this number increases to around 13% for the 40-44 year old and 28% for those aged 55-59 (Berthould, 2006). Similar disability rates are found for the US (Kapteyn et al, 2007). Disability is associated with higher benefit take up, poverty and lower employment rates.…”

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Health shocks, disability and work

2016

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• Exploits unscheduled hospitalizations as unanticipated health shocks in event-history model.• Health shocks substantially increase disability risk, but no direct effect on employment.• Finds sizeable (local average treatment) effect of onset of disability on employment.• Effects larger for men and low-educated workers. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o This paper focuses on the relation between health shocks and the onset of a disability and employment outcomes. We estimate an event-history model using data from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS), where accidents causing a unscheduled hospitalization are the measure for unanticipated health shocks. Our results show that experiencing such a health shock substantially increases the likelihood of the onset of a disability, while it does not have direct effects on employment at later ages. This finding is used to simulate the causal effects of the onset of a disability on later employment outcomes. These simulations show that about two-third of the association between disability and employment can be explained by the causal effect of the onset of a disability on employment. The remaining one-third is selection. For men and lower-educated workers the association is mainly explained by the causal effect, while for women selection is more important.

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“…The answers on the vignettes can be used to scale the psychological measures. A similar approach is used by Kapteyn, Smith and van Soest (2007) to scale happiness variables.…”

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Challenges in research on preferences and personality traits: Measurement, stability, and inference

Golsteyn

Schildberg-Hörisch

2017

Journal of Economic Psychology

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy advice on labor market issues. Supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation, IZA runs the world's largest network of economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. Terms of use: Documents inSchaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9 53113 Bonn, GermanyPhone: +49-228-3894-0 Email: publications@iza.org www.iza.org This paper reviews several traditions in economic research on preferences as well as research on personality traits in personality psychology and lists challenges in both fields. IZA -Institute of Labor EconomicsWe discuss challenges regarding the measurement of preferences and personality traits, challenges regarding the stability of preferences and traits, and challenges when inferring causality. Additionally, we highlight areas in which we see potential benefits from taking into account methodological approaches or insights from the respective other discipline. JEL Classification:A12, D03

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“…In the standard ordered probit (SORP) model of Equation (1), the thresholds ψ are assumed to be fixed across individuals, though this need not be the case (see Terza, 1985, Pudney and Shields, 2000, King et al, 2004, Kapteyn et al, 2007, Eluru et al, 2008, and King, 2009; see also Greene and Hensher, 2010, Chapter 7 for a discussion). Following these earlier studies, consider that the thresholds are parameterized as a non-linear function of a set of 1 The exclusion of a constant in the vector x q of Equation (1) is an innocuous normalization as long as all the intermediate thresholds (ψ 0 through ψ K-1 ) are left free for estimation.…”

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A latent variable representation of count data models to accommodate spatial and temporal dependence: Application to predicting crash frequency at intersections

Castro

Paleti

Bhat

2012

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

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This paper proposes a reformulation of count models as a special case of generalized orderedresponse models in which a single latent continuous variable is partitioned into mutually exclusive intervals. Using this equivalent latent variable-based generalized ordered response framework for count data models, we are then able to gainfully and efficiently introduce temporal and spatial dependencies through the latent continuous variables. Our formulation also allows handling excess zeros in correlated count data, a phenomenon that is commonly found in

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Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands

Cited by 329 publications

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Health shocks, disability and work

Health shocks, disability and work

Challenges in research on preferences and personality traits: Measurement, stability, and inference

A latent variable representation of count data models to accommodate spatial and temporal dependence: Application to predicting crash frequency at intersections

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