| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28725 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28725 |
| Disability Insurance in the Great Recession: Ease of Access, Program Enrollment, and Local Hysteresis | |
| Melissa S. Kearney; Brendan M. Price; Riley Wilson | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-05-03 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Previous research has documented that Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applications and awards increase during economic downturns and that expanded access to SSDI leads to a reduction in employment. We build on these insights and investigate to what extent differential access to SSDI during economic downturns leads to differential changes in SSDI enrollment and employment during the subsequent recovery. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in SSDI appeals processing time (a measure of hassle or access) facing individuals living in ZIP codes that straddle Social Security Administration hearing office catchment borders. During the Great Recession, ZIP codes assigned to hearing offices with faster appellate processes saw a larger increase in SSDI enrollment than their cross-border neighbors. These enrollment effects are concentrated among ZIP code pairs that experienced more severe labor market downturns, and they persist as late as 2015. In the full sample, there is no clear effect of longer processing times on subsequent employment rates. However, we find some limited evidence that faster appellate processes may have weighed on the employment recovery in hard-hit ZIP codes that had high pre-recession rates of SSDI enrollment. Our findings highlight the importance of considering interaction effects between economic shocks and ease of access to the safety net. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28725 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586399 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Melissa S. Kearney,Brendan M. Price,Riley Wilson. Disability Insurance in the Great Recession: Ease of Access, Program Enrollment, and Local Hysteresis. 2021. |
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| w28725.pdf（2463KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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