Lassoing the Determinants of Retirement

Malene Kallestrup-Lamb (), Anders Kock and Johannes Kristensen
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Malene Kallestrup-Lamb: Aarhus University and CREATES, Postal: Department of Economics and Business, Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark

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Abstract: This paper uses Danish register data to explain the retirement decision of workers in 1990 and 1998.Many variables might be conjectured to influence this decision such as demographic, socio-economic, financially and health related variables as well as all the same factors for the spouse in case the individual is married. In total we have access to 399 individual specific variables that all could potentially impact the retirement decision.We use variants of the Lasso and the adaptive Lasso applied to logistic regression in order to uncover determinants of the retirement decision. To the best of our knowledge this is the first application of these estimators in microeconometrics to a problem of this type and scale. Furthermore, we investigate whether the factors influencing the retirement decision are stable over time, gender and marital status. It is found that this is the case for core variables such as age, income, wealth and general health. We also point out themost important differences between these groups and explain why these might be present.

Keywords: Retirement; Register data; High-dimensional data; Lasso; Adaptive Lasso; Oracle property; Logistic regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 C25 J0 J14 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dem, nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-lma
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