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Title: Disability Benefit Take-Up and Local Labor Market Conditions

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2018

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ISSN: 15309142

DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00692

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Abstract: Exploiting county-level variation in oil-producing areas from shocks to world oil and gas prices, we study how local labor market conditions affect disability take-up. We extend well-known previous work using a similar research design by analyzing a different price shock; a larger, more representative set of labor markets; and a more recent period marked by skyrocketing disability payments. Our estimated elasticity for SSDI payments with respect to earnings of -0.29 is surprisingly similar to earlier findings. Our preferred SSI elasticity estimate of -0.16 is smaller than previous findings, but we show that SSI programmatic changes explain most of the difference.

Url: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest_a_00692

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Authors: Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Li, Yiming; Stephens, Melvin

Periodical (Full): Review of Economics and Statistics

Issue: 3

Volume: 100

Pages: 416-423

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Natural Resource Management, Other

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