disability and its association with a wide range of outcomes, including earnings, income, and consumption. We then employ some of … decline in after-tax income, a 24 percent decline in food and housing consumption and a 22 percent decline in food consumption …

imperfectly identified. We quantify the relative statistical impact of income, unemployment, house prices, credit scores, debt … needs to allow for multiple determinants of consumption. Unemployment, income, and debt are important determinants of …