We use a choice-based subsample of Social Security Disability Insurance applicants from the 1978 Social Security Survey … of Disability and Work to test the importance of policy variables on the timing of application for disability insurance …

insurance, and more importantly, what are the social costs and benefits of this behavior? To this end, I establish several new … Chatterjee et al. (2007). After proving the existence of a Block Recursive Equilibrium, I find that the extra self- insurance job …

The most prevalent incentive problem in the U.S. unemployment insurance system is that individuals collect unemployment … benefits while being gainfully employed. We show how the unemployment insurance authority can efficiently use a combination of …