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In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
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The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...
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reductions in disability rates. These improvements were larger for those born in states with higher pre-intervention levels of …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …
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severe impairments can work, led to fundamental disability policy reforms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Great Britain. In … Australia, rapid growth in disability recipiency led to more modest reforms. Here we describe the factors driving unsustainable … OECD countries, and discuss the reforms each country implemented to regain control over their cash transfer disability …
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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 …
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occupationally disabled by the PES. Simi-lar to the studies on disability retirement and self-reported disability we find that men …
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disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt … of publically provided disability benefits has fluctuated over time and discuss how policy choices played a role. Based …
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