Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income, the United States' two primary disability income … in public health insurance availability, such as the ACA's Medicaid expansions, may impact disability program …

survey of U.S. households, we document the prevalence of financial stress in U.S. households and a strong relationship … dynamic model of consumption and labor supply. We emphasize two key results. First, a psychology-based theory of poverty traps … of financial stress. On the other hand, naifs dis-save, fall into a poverty trap, and incur high welfare losses. Second …

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) broadly prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in …

While time out of work normally decreases subsequent employment, Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) may improve …. A similar relationship between time on DI and the employment response is found among those whose primary disability was …

Disability (LTD) policies using a database of approximately 10,000 policies and 1 million workers from a major LTD insurer. We … document that LTD claims rates are much lower than claims rates on the public analogue to LTD, the Social Security Disability …

We study a fundamental reform of the public Disability Insurance (DI) system in Germany. Effective 2001, cohorts born … rules require work disability in any job. Using administrative data, we first show that the reform significantly reduced the … household panel data comprised of the entire underlying population. The second part studies interaction effects with the private …

prevalence and costs associated with disability, understanding these pathways is critical to developing interventions to prevent … or minimize disability. We compare two estimates of disabling conditions: those observed in medical claims and conditions … indicated by the disabled individual. A small number of conditions explain about half of incident disability: arthritis …