The effect of non-contributory pensions on labour supply and private income transfers: evidence from Singapore

IZA Journal of Labor Policy

Table 9 Robustness check for labour decisions—accounting for spousal receipt of SSS payout

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
VARIABLES	Whether received income	Amount received	Amount received (positive)	Probability of working full- time after age 70
Only respondent rcv SS × announce-to-pay	0.0182	160.4	91.45	−2.008
Only respondent rcv SS × announce-to-pay	(0.0223)	(126.6)	(120.3)	(3.842)
Only spouse rcv SS × announce-to-pay	0.0341	98.83**	56.89	0.358
Only spouse rcv SS × announce-to-pay	(0.0298)	(44.73)	(88.78)	(9.202)
Both rcv SS × announce-to-pay	0.0186	53.09	69.12	−3.614
Both rcv SS × announce-to-pay	(0.0200)	(43.77)	(121.5)	(3.919)
Only respondent rcv SS × post-pay	−0.0127	144.8	165.4	−4.396
Only respondent rcv SS × post-pay	(0.0227)	(106.2)	(132.6)	(3.375)
Only spouse rcv SS × post-pay	0.0467	129.8**	106.3	0.318
Only spouse rcv SS × post-pay	(0.0451)	(58.53)	(102.5)	(7.000)
Both rcv SS × post-pay	0.00888	20.69	−54.55	−5.013
Both rcv SS × post-pay	(0.0184)	(39.37)	(87.64)	(3.785)
Observations	15,655	15,591	4444	3448
R-squared	0.808	0.712	0.772	0.627

Notes:
¹Standard errors clustered at the household level in parentheses. ***, **, and * represent statistical significance at the 1, 5, and 10% level of significance respectively
²Dependent variables are shown at the top of each column. Values in columns (1)–(3) are reported at the individual and monthly level, with column (3) including only responses with positive values. Values in column (4) are collected at the individual level every quarter
³Results are estimates of coefficients in Eq. (4). In the interest of space, we do not show the coefficients from the placebo leads. The sample is restricted to respondents who are age-eligible for SSS (i.e. aged 65 and above in 2016), Singapore citizens, live in public housing flats, and with a propensity score of 0.2–0.8