Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7349705 | Economics Letters | 2017 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Self-control problems have been proposed as a key reason for low pension saving rates, yet evidence of this link remains scarce. We test the association between childhood self-control and adult pension participation using data from 14,223 individuals from two nationally-representative British cohorts. We find that a 1 standard deviation increase in self-control predicts a 4-5 percentage point higher probability of having a pension. Mediation analysis shows that about 50-60 percent of this association is explained by the contribution of self-control to a range of factors (e.g. education, economic status, home-ownership) which are associated with pension uptake throughout adulthood.
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Authors
Leonhard K. Lades, Mark Egan, Liam Delaney, Michael Daly,