Replication data for: Disability Insurance and the Great Recession

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Project Citation:

Maestas, Nicole, Mullen, Kathleen J., and Strand, Alexander. Replication data for: Disability Insurance and the Great Recession. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113409V1

Project Description

Summary: The US Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program is designed to provide income support to workers who become unable to work because of a severe, long-lasting disability. In this study, we use administrative data to estimate the effect of labor market conditions, as measured by the unemployment rate, on the number of SSDI applications, the number and composition of initial allowances and denials, and the timing of applications relative to disability onset. We analyze the period of the Great Recession, and compare this period with business cycle effects over the past two decades, from 1992 through 2012.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
      E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
      H55 Social Security and Public Pensions
      I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
      J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination

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