 Inferring the Relationship Between Employment and Disability Status Among Persons Nearing Retirement AgeBrent Kreider () and John Pepper Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics Abstract: Although there is a long-standing interest in the labor market behavior of older persons, there is little consensus on the reliability of self-reported indicators of health status. Rather than imposing the strong assumptions required to obtain point identification, Kreider and Pepper (2001, 2002) take a step back to evaluate what can be inferred under a variety of assumptions that are weaker but arguably more credible than those imposed in the existing literature. In this paper, we review this recent line of research to reevaluate how employment rates among older persons vary with disability status in light of misreporting errors in work capacity. Although these assumptions do not identify the conditional employment rates, nonparametric bounds for these parameters can be obtained. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find strong evidence that models estimated under the assumption of fully accurate reporting lead to biased inferences. In particular, it appears that the nonworkers tend to overreport disabilities. Date: 2002-01-01 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:isu:genres:10074 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics Iowa State University, Dept. of Economics, 260 Heady Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1070. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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