Disability Insurance waiting time varies from a few months to several years. We estimate the causal effect of longer …

' 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 …

This paper exploits rarely-used longitudinal data to examine the impacts of disability onset on benefit receipt in … who experienced disability onset under the less restrictive pre-2009 disability benefit regime. Contrary to the perception … combines propensity score matching with difference-in-differences estimation. Disability onset increases receipt of disability …

depending on the nature of the disability, the disabled person's gender and the social context. Our aim was to investigate … variation in attitudes to disability depending on these factors. A nationally representative sample of 2,000 adults read a …-institutionalisation, relationships and welfare payments. Vignettes varied by presence and type of disability and the protagonist's gender. Some vignettes …

residual work capacities that can be exploited. After the first phase of benefit entitlement, workers that do not use their … residual income capacity experience a large drop in benefit income. In effect, this implies a substantial increase in …