We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using … exogenous variation in screening induced by a policy reform. The reform raised DI application costs and revealed more … not apply under the old system of more lax screening, those who are discouraged from applying are in worse health, have …

risk by overrating the agent's performance. Second, I show that by screening for one supervisor type, firms can incentivize … the supervisor to truthfully report performance at the lowest possible costs. For this reason, screening may be optimal …

fail to repay. In this paper we asked whether, and to what extent, it may be beneficial to apply a screening mechanism to … purpose, we develop a two-sector infinite horizon model featuring oligopolistic small businesses and a screening contract in …