Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients: lessons from a randomised field experiment

Bütler, Monika; Deuchert, Eva; Lechner, Michael; Staubli, Stefan; Thiemann, Petra

doi:10.1186/s40173-015-0044-7

Table 2 Predictors of call-back rate and scheduled meeting

From: Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients: lessons from a randomised field experiment

		(1) Call-back		(2) Call-back		(3) Meeting
		Coeff.	(S.E.)	Coeff.	(S.E.)	Coeff.	(S.E.)
Treatment (=1 if seed capital: high)		−0.002	0.012	−0.002	0.013	0.013	0.013
Age		−0.007*	0.004	−0.004	0.004	−0.009*	0.005
Age squared		0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Sex (=1 if male)		0.007	0.011	0.007	0.012	0.025*	0.014
Foreign (= 1 if foreign)		0.027*	0.015	0.046**	0.022	0.058**	0.027
Civil status (ref.: married)
	Single or widow	0.024	0.016	0.013	0.019	0.009	0.015
	Separated or divorced	0.017	0.017	0.013	0.020	0.041	0.028
Child (= 1 if at least 1 child)		0.024	0.017	0.013	0.017	0.016	0.022
Disease (ref.: Mental)
	Nervous system	−0.031	0.019	−0.020	0.013	−0.008	0.013
	Back disorders	−0.003	0.022	0.016	0.022	0.005	0.023
	Other musculoskeletal diseases	−0.024	0.019	0.011	0.024	0.012	0.025
	Injuries	−0.005	0.023	0.021	0.026	0.015	0.039
	Other	0.006	0.020	0.007	0.020	−0.007	0.020
Pension (ref.: half)
	Full	0.017	0.016	−0.003	0.021	0.017	0.023
	Three quarters	−0.029	0.018	−0.030	0.022	−0.003	0.026
	One quarter	−0.044***	0.015	−0.055***	0.018	−0.018	0.018
Start of pension receipt (ref.: 2001 - 2006)
	Before 1996	0.008	0.015	−0.015	0.015	0.003	0.019
	1996 – 2000	0.023	0.016	0.006	0.018	0.009	0.021
	After 2006	0.013	0.017	0.011	0.022	−0.012	0.023
Education (ref.: high school/vocational)
	Compulsory education or less			−0.011	0.015	−0.015	0.017
	Higher vocational degree			0.013	0.023	0.022	0.026
Self-reported health (ref.: not so good)
	Good/very good			0.013	0.016	0.007	0.016
	Bad			−0.002	0.015	0.022	0.021
Employment (ref.: previously employed)
	Currently employed			0.004	0.016	0.031	0.019
	Never employed			−0.038***	0.010	−0.032**	0.014
Job search (ref.: difficult)
	Easy			0.008	0.038	0.040	0.049
	Almost impossible			−0.024	0.016	−0.004	0.015
	Missing			−0.017	0.029	0.011	0.033
Survey participation (= 1 if participates)		−0.016	0.012
Adjusted R2		0.013		0.016		0.047
Number of observations		4,000		2,297		1,260

Note: The table shows OLS estimates for the experimental sample (column 1), for survey participants (column 2), and for individuals in the canton of Vaud who participated in the survey (column 3). The outcome variables are an indicator for interest in seed capital, measured as case-worker contact with request for more information (columns 1 and 2) and an indicator for whether a meeting with the case worker was scheduled to discuss further steps (column 3). The regression coefficients are computed using sampling weights. Standard errors in parentheses. Significance: *p < 0.1; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01

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