underutilisation is especially prevalent among groups such as lone parents, people with disability, and Indigenous Australians. These …

This paper provides a life-cycle framework for weighing up the insurance value of disability benefi ts against the … parameters governing the disability insurance program, using indirect inference and longitudinal data on consumption, disability … status, disability insurance receipt, and wages. We use our estimates to characterize the effectiveness of the disability …

' 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 …

, individuals whose health is risky and heterogeneous choose to either work, or not work and apply for social security disability …

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 …

This paper exploits rarely-used longitudinal data to examine the impacts of disability onset on benefit receipt in … combines propensity score matching with difference-in-differences estimation. Disability onset increases receipt of disability … insurance, a wider measure of sickness and disability benefits, and receipt of non-sickness benefits by six, eight and six …

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 …

, individuals whose health is risky and heterogeneous choose to either work, or not work and apply for social security disability …