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Title: The Effect of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Social Security Disability Insurance and Workers' Compensation Claiming

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: We study the effect of state medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Workers' Compensation (WC) claiming among working age adults. We use data on benet claiming drawn from the 1990 to 2013 Current Population Survey coupled with a differences-in-differences design to study this question. We nd that passage of an MML increases SSDI claiming. Post-MML the propensity to claim SSDI increases by 0.31 percentage points, which translates to 11.3% relative to SSDI claiming propensity in our sample (2.7%). Point estimates for WC are imprecise.

Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23862

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Authors: Maclean, Johanna, C; Ghimire, Keshar, M; Nicholas, Lauren, H

Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 23862

Institution: NBER

Pages: 54

Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Aging and Retirement, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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