| Titre : | A New Testing Method for Justification Bias Using High-Frequency Data of Health and Employment |
| Auteurs : | J. WEN, Auteur ; Z. YE, Auteur ; X. ZHANG, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Ouvrage |
| Editeur : | Ithaca : Cornell University, 2024/02 |
| Format : | 36p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
[BDSP5] Etudes méthodes et statistiques [NI] > Méthodologie > Méthode [BDSP5] Information & communication [NI] > Documentation > Stockage information > Banque donnée [BDSP5] Information & communication [NI] > Information > Nature information [NI] > Donnée statistique [BDSP5] Information sanitaire > Etat santé [BDSP5] Méthode épidémiologique > Biais [BDSP5] Pathologie > Appareil circulatoire [pathologie] > Hypertension artérielle [BDSP5] Pathologie > Glande endocrine [pathologie] > Diabète [BDSP5] Pathologie > Tumeur > Cancer [BDSP5] Politique groupe population > Politique travailleurs > Retraite [BDSP5] Sciences éducation > Pédagogie > Evaluation des connaissances > Autoévaluation |
| Résumé : | Justification bias, wherein retirees may report poorer health to rationalize their retirement, poses a major concern to the widely-used measure of self-assessed health in retirement studies. This paper introduces a novel method for testing the presence of this bias in the spirit of regression discontinuity. The underlying idea is that any sudden shift in self-assessed health immediately following retirement is more likely attributable to the bias. Our strategy is facilitated by a unique high-frequency data that offers monthly, in contrast to the typical biennial, information on employment, self-assessed health, and objective health conditions. Across a wider post-retirement time frame, we observe a decline in self-assessed health, potentially stemming from both justification bias and changes in actual health. However, this adverse effect diminishes with shorter intervals, indicating no evidence of such bias. Our method also validates a widely-used indirect testing approach. |
| En ligne : | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06368 |