' 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 … 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 …

The Disability Insurance (DI) program in the US is a large social insurance program that offers income replacement …. This paper has three aims: We provide a framework for weighing up the insurance value of disability benefi…ts against the … genuine need. We use our model and estimates to characterize the economic effects of the disability insurance and to consider …

work due to either disability or distase for work. Taxpayers have resentment against inactive benefit recipients because … stigma disutility increases with the number of non-disabled recipients. Tagging transfers according to disability …

removed and eligibility for disability pensions and long-term sick leaves tightened. This paper relates to the 2005 OECD …

We provide a lifecycle framework for comparing the insurance value and the incentive cost of disability benefits. We … estimate the risks that individuals face and the parameters governing the disability insurance program using longitudinal US … data on consumption, health, disability insurance, and wages. We characterize the economic effects of disability insurance …

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 …

Over the last 25 years, the Social Security Disability Insurance Program (DI) has grown dramatically. During the same … group, raising questions about the targeting of disability benefits, studies using denied applicants suggest a more modest …

on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation to severe disability, however, is shown to be incomplete. The …

We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK's disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … status) has gone through a significant transformation since 2013 with the gradual replacement of the disability living …