The Effect of Heavy Smoking on Retirement Behaviour: An Instrumental Variable Approach
A. Gaggero, E. Zucchell, O. Ajnakina, R. A. Hackett
The extent to which heavy smoking and retirement behaviour are causally related remains to be determined. To overcome the endogeneity of heavy smoking behaviour, we employ a novel approach by exploiting Mendelian Randomisation and use genetic predisposition to heavy smoking, as measured with a polygenic risk score (PGS), as an instrumental variable. A total of 3578 participants from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (mean age 64.41 years) had data on smoking behaviour, employment and a heavy smoking PGS. Heavy smoking was indexed as smoking at least 20 cigarettes a day. Our results show that being a heavy smoker increases significantly the probability of early retirement (B= 0.635, standard error = 0.209, p < 0.001). Results were robust to a battery of robustness checks and a falsification test. Overall, our findings support a causal pathway from heavy smoking to retirement behaviour.
Keywords: Smoking; Retirement behaviour; Polygenic Risk Scores; Instrumental variable; Mendelian Randomisation
Scheduled
Data Analysis in Social Sciences
June 8, 2022 4:00 PM
Audiovisual room
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