Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt

We present the first causal estimates of the effect of Social Security Disability Insurance benefit receipt on labor supply using all program applicants. We use administrative data to match applications to disability examiners and exploit variation in examiners' allowance rates as an instrument...

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Published in:The American economic review 2013-08, Vol.103 (5), p.1797-1829
Main Authors: Maestas, Nicole, Mullen, Kathleen J., Strand, Alexander
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
1995-2009
Americans with Disabilities Act 1990-US
Applicants
Arbeitsangebot
Beneficiaries
Causal analysis
Causality
Disabilities
Disability
Disability benefit
Disability insurance
Disability recipients
Economic theory
Employment
Employment statistics
Erwerbsminderungsrente
Examiners
Health insurance
Labor economics
Labor force
Labor force participation
Labor supply
Labour supply
Life insurance
People with disabilities
Preliminary estimates
Schätzung
Social policy
Social security
Social Security Disability Insurance
Studies
USA
Workers with disabilities
Workforce
ZIP codes
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