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 …

individual data from the Netherlands from 2006 to 2013. We focus on workers receiving partial DI benefits and with substantial …

Public disability insurance (DI) programs in many countries face pressure to reduce their generosity in order to remain … sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of … private insurance market with choice improves welfare. However, we show that distributional concerns as well as individual …

disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …

causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients …

novelty is the introduction of partial control. Each characteristic differs in terms of the degree of control, i.e., the …