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Legal Representation in Disability Claims
Hoynes, Hilary W.; Maestas, Nicole; Strand, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Legal representatives play a prominent role in the Social Security Disability Insurance adjudication process, earning fees totaling $1.2 billion in 2019. Long ubiquitous in appellate hearings, disability representatives--including attorneys and non-attorneys--have begun appearing more frequently...
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Disability and Distress : The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes
Deshpande, Manasi - 2019
We provide the first evidence on the relationship between disability programs and markers of financial distress: bankruptcy, foreclosure, eviction, and home sale. Rates of these adverse financial events peak around the time of disability application and subsequently fall for both allowed and...
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Is the Rise in Illicit Opioids Affecting Labor Supply and Disability Claiming Rates?
Park, Sujeong - 2020
There is considerable interest in understanding the broader effects of the opioid crisis on labor supply and social insurance programs in the United States. This paper examines how the recent transition of the opioid crisis from prescription opioids to more prevalent misuse of illicit opioids,...
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Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2018
Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation, future labor market attachment, and human capital investments? While intergenerational concerns have figured prominently in policy debates for decades, causal evidence is scarce...
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Disability policies : Reform strategies in a comparative perspective
Böheim, René - 2016
We analyze different disability policy strategies using policy scores developed by the OECD for the period 1990 to 2007. Applying model-based and hierarchical agglomerative clustering, we investigate the existence of distinct country clusters, characterized by particular policy combinations. In...
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Persistent Effects of Social Program Participation on the Third Generation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Gielen, Anne C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Can participation in safety net programs have long-lasting negative effects across multiple generations? Prior work shows a 1993 Dutch disability insurance reform which tightened requirements and lowered benefits for participants resulted in better outcomes for their children. We study the third...
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The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on the Take-up of Disability Benefits by Race and Ethnicity
Staiger, Becky; Helfer, Madeline S.; Van Parys, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Public disability programs provide financial support to 12 million working-age individuals per year, though not all eligible individuals take up these programs. Mixed evidence exists regarding the impact of Medicaid eligibility expansion on program take-up, and even less is known about the...
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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2019
We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …
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When Knowledge is not Enough : HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana
Levinsohn, James A. - 2006
increase vulnerability to infection? We use data from two recent household surveys in Botswana to address this question. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466247
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …
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