the 8-hour working day. To measure the contribution of these aspects to broader welfare, I apply a new utility …-based framework that, contrary to previous composite indices such as the Human Development Index, allows for a welfare analysis … underestimates welfare growth significantly (up to five percent annually). Moreover, with this indicator cross-country differences in …

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 … concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While …

through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant … the benefit system, and recent reforms to the out-of-work benefits have involved toughening and extending job …

' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program …. First, I find that while spousal labor supply responses to husbands' disability are small, wives spend a sizable amount of … households that incorporates husbands' disability status, wives' time allocation choices, health state dependent utility, and the …

social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to … estimate the causal effect of exit from disability insurance (DI) on participation in other social assistance programs. We find … form of social assistance two years after the implementation of the reform. As a result, for each Euro saved in DI benefits …