Does Working Longer Make you Happy? A Simultaneous Equations Approach Raquel Fonseca (Université du Québec à Montréal) Arie Kapteyn (USC Dornsife CESR)

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Does Working Longer Make you Happy? A Simultaneous Equations Approach Raquel Fonseca (Université du Québec à Montréal) Arie Kapteyn (USC Dornsife CESR) Jinkook Lee (University of Southern California) Gema Zamarro (USC Dornsife CESR)

The potential effects of increasing working life on subjective wellbeing are not well known Continued improvements in life expectancy and fiscal insolvency of public pensions have led to an increase in pension entitlement ages in several countries, but its consequences for subjective well-being are largely unknown Grip et al. (2009) found a strong and persistent negative effect on psychological well-being from a change in the Dutch civil servants’ pension system that affected the pension age eligibility of some cohorts but not of others

Labor force participation may affect subjective well-being Unemployment can adversely affect subjective well- being; How about retirement? In the U.S. evidence is mixed, finding both positive (Charles, 2004) and negative (Dave, Rashad, & Spasojevic, 2008; Szinovacz & Davey, 2004) effects Consistently positive effects are found in England (Johnston & Lee, 2009; Mein et al., 2004) and Finland (Okasanen et al., 2011; Salokangas & Joukamaa, 1991) No effect is found in the Republic of Korea or continental Europe for depression measures (Lee & Smith, 2009; Coe & Zamarro, 2011)

Data We examine the effect of retirement on subjective well- being within 12 countries, using panel data for 50+ population from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) We pooled the data from these surveys together and focus our analysis on the waves were both surveys are available (about 120,000 obs.) Depression definition: More than 3 symptoms in the CES-D and Euro-D depression indexes HRSSHARE Life satisfaction Diener scale ( Leave Behind Questionnaire) Single-item life satisfaction ( Core interview) A single-item overall life satisfaction question ( Core Interview) Depressive symptoms 8 items CESD ( Core interview) 12 items EURO-D ( Core)

Life satisfaction by country (1=low; 5=high)

Depression by Country

Four outcome variables: Retirement; Income; Depression; Life Satisfaction All four equations include the following explanatory variables: – Household wealth – Year dummies – Age – Gender – Marital Status – Education – Health (major condition; ADLs) – Country dummies (and regional dummies for US)

Retirement Equation Above full retirement age Above early retirement age Both variables interacted with replacement rates

Income Equation Retirement status Interaction with replacement rate Whether unemployed Interaction with unemployment replacement rate

Both Depression and Life Satisfaction Retirement status Unemployed Unemployed interacted with replacement rate Log household income

Results In the raw data (and across all countries) correlations are – Positive between retirement and depression – Negative between retirement and life satisfaction (with the exception of the U.S.; all correlations are small) – Positive between income and life satisfaction – Negative between income and depression

According to the Model Estimates, there is – A (marginally significant, 10%) negative effect of retirement on depression – A significant positive effect of retirement on life satisfaction – No effect of income on either depression or life satisfaction. – A strong effect of unemployment replacement rates on the life satisfaction of the unemployed. – Retirement does not respond very strongly to replacement rates, but it does respond to eligibility ages.

Model Simulations In view of these results, it is not surprising that retirement replacement rates don’t have strong effects on retirement and hence also not on depression or well-being Higher eligibility ages imply later retirement and hence a modest fall in life satisfaction for ages in countries where currently workers retire early.

Caveats/Extensions Due to data limitations, we could not yet estimate a dynamic model; this will be done when the 2012 SHARE wave is available The incentive measures by country need to be refined The specification of the effect of retirement on depression or life satisfaction needs to be improved, e.g. by taking into account time since retirement.