Table 6

Pension Eligibility and Personal Income Share in NIDS Wave 2

(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
Dependent variable: Personal income share in Wave 2, aggregated by Wave 2 householdDependent variable: Personal income share in Wave 2, aggregated by Wave 1 household
Polynomial in age of person is
linearquadraticcubiclinearquadraticcubic
Panel 1: Women
Pension eligible in Wave 211.92***
[3.706]
11.04***
[3.863]
11.10***
[3.843]
10.61***
[3.861]
10.22**
[4.010]
7.333
[4.943]
Observations1,7121,7121,7121,7121,7121,712
R-squared0.1230.1230.1260.1000.1000.101
Sample mean44.4245.13
Panel 2: Men
Pension eligible in Wave 2−0.899
[5.945]
0.0164
[6.431]
2.422
[7.732]
1.276
[5.804]
1.007
[6.236]
−1.463
[7.486]
Observations975975975975975975
R-squared0.1090.1540.1550.1210.1210.122
Sample mean41.1141.53
P-value for equality of female and male eligibility coefficients0.0700.1200.1170.1690.1990.303
Controls for opposite gender person aged 50+ and opposite gender pension eligible person in.WAVE 2WAVE 2WAVE 2WAVE 1WAVE 1WAVE 1
  • Notes: Robust standard errors in brackets are clustered at the Wave 2 household level in Columns 1–3 and the Wave 1 household level in Columns 4–6. Regressions are weighted with survey post-stratification weights for Wave 2 in Columns 1–3 and Wave 1 in Columns 4–6. Sample is restricted to black men and women aged 50–75 in NIDS Wave 2.

  • *** p < 0.01,

  • ** p < 0.05,

  • * p < 0.1