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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Disability benefit recipients in the United States have nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing substantially … cannot currently claim benefits. Using NHIS microdata, we estimate models of disability as a function of medical conditions … for both the legal and undocumented populations. The relationship between health and disability is far stronger for those …

explained by the growth of the Social Security Disability program. By 1975, 6.22% of the prime-age non-white men and 3.57% of … the white men were Social Security Disability beneficiaries. Despite the medical screening of applicants, I find in cross … Security Disability beneficiaries …