Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups

Arthur van Soest (), Tatiana Andreyeva, Arie Kapteyn and James P. Smith

No 17153, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Social networks and social interactions affect individual and social norms. We develop a direct test of this using Dutch survey data on how respondents evaluate work disability of hypothetical people with some work related health problem (vignettes). We analyze how the thresholds respondents use to decide what constitutes a (mild or more serious) work disability depend on the number of people receiving disability insurance benefits (DI) in their reference group. We find that reference group effects are significant and contribute substantially to an explanation of why self-reported work disability in the Netherlands is much higher than in, for example, the US.

JEL-codes: J14 J21 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
Note: AG EH
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Published as Self-Reported Disability and Reference Groups , Arthur van Soest, Tatiana Andreyeva, Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith. in Investigations in the Economics of Aging , Wise. 2012

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