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

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Exploiting county-level variation in oil-producing areas from shocks to world oil and gas prices from 1970-2011, we study how local labor market conditions affect disability benefit take-up. We estimate elasticities of benefit payments to earnings for SSDI and SSI programs of between 0.25 and -0.35 for most specifications, and account for why our SSI elasticity is smaller than that found in previous well-known work. Our analysis extends the best-known previous work that have used a similar research design by studying a more representative sample in terms of region and demographics, over a more recent period when disability payments skyrocketed.

Url: http://yimingli.net/docs/disability_201609.pdf

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Authors: Charles, Kerwin K; Li, Yiming; Stephens Jr., Melvin

Publisher: University of Chicago

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Topics: Natural Resource Management, Other

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