In this paper, we study the roles of expertise and independence on governing boards in the context of education. In … independence of educators may be distorted by interest groups. The key empirical challenge is that school board composition is …

evidence-based policy process. This paper proposes a novel empirical method for monitoring the accessibility and levels of … the amounts of cash support that individuals in need receive in practice. Results show that accessibility and benefit …

We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability … insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of … work experience, and the level of disability. As a result, different people will face different benefit schedules and hence …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

This paper examines the consequences of disability, identifying for the first time, the separate impacts of onsets and … recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in … towards a need for social protection policies with a focus on health, disability, and employment in Indonesia. …

Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer …

examine the relationship between the dynamics of work-limiting disability and employment, hours of work, earnings and life … satisfaction. We employ two alternative classifications of the dynamic trajectories of disability and, in doing so, are able to … explicitly consider the influence of disability exit in addition to examining onset by chronicity and severity. After controlling …

disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt … of publically provided disability benefits has fluctuated over time and discuss how policy choices played a role. Based …