The Polygenic Risk Score of Subjective Well-Being, Self-Employment, and Earnings Among Older Individuals*

Pankaj C. Patel; Cornelius A. Rietveld; Marcus T. Wolfe; Johan Wiklund

doi:10.1177/1042258720936984

The Polygenic Risk Score of Subjective Well-Being, Self-Employment, and Earnings Among Older Individuals*

Pankaj C. Patel, Cornelius A. Rietveld, Marcus T. Wolfe, Johan Wiklund

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We investigate whether the polygenic risk score (PRS) of subjective well-being (SWB), a weighted combination of multiple genetic variants which captures an individual’s time-invariant genetic predisposition to SWB, influences the choice of self-employment and whether it explains differences in earnings between older self-employed and employed workers. In a sample of 4,571 individuals (50 to 65 years old) representing 14,937 individual-year observations from the Health and Retirement Study, we find that the PRS of SWB is positively associated with self-employment and earnings. However, contrary to our expectations, the positive association with earnings is not significantly different between self-employed and employed individuals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	440-466
Number of pages	27
Journal	Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
Volume	45
Issue number	2
Early online date	14 Jul 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720936984
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2021

Keywords

earnings
occupational choice
polygenic risk score
self-employment
subjective well-being

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Business and International Management
Economics and Econometrics

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