Replication data for: Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Nicole Maestas; Kathleen J. Mullen; Alexander Strand

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Project Citation:

Maestas, Nicole, Mullen, Kathleen J., and Strand, Alexander. Replication data for: Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112658V1

Project Description

Summary: We present the first causal estimates of the effect of Social Security Disability Insurance benefit receipt on labor supply using all program applicants. We use administrative data to match applications to disability examiners and exploit variation in examiners' allowance rates as an instrument for benefit receipt. We find that among the estimated 23 percent of applicants on the margin of program entry, employment would have been 28 percentage points higher had they not received benefits. The effect is heterogeneous, ranging from no effect for those with more severe impairments to 50 percentage points for entrants with relatively less severe impairments.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      H55 Social Security and Public Pensions
      J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1/1/2005 – 12/31/2006

Universe: All Social Security Disability Insurance applicants

Data Type(s): administrative records data

Methodology

Data Source: Social Security Administration Disability Operational Data Store (DIODS)

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals,

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