This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large …-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed … absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening …

We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using … social insurance programs. As we do not find additional screening effects on health at the point of the award decision, we …

executive directors, also without a successor appointment, are value relevant in the Netherlands where external control …

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …