The Accelerated Benefits Demonstration: Impacts on the Employment of Disability Insurance Beneficiaries

Michelle Stegman Baily and Robert R. Weathers

American Economic Review, 2014, vol. 104, issue 5, 336-41

Abstract: We use data from the Accelerated Benefits demonstration to estimate the impacts of providing newly entitled disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries with health insurance and additional services during the DI program's 24-month Medicare waiting period. While health insurance alone did not increase employment, the additional employment services appeared to have positive short-term impacts on labor market activity. We find a statistically significant increase in employment and earnings in the second calendar year after random assignment; although these findings disappear in the third calendar year. Our results may have implications for disability reform proposals and provisions within the Affordable Care Act.

JEL-codes: G22 H51 I13 I18 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.5.336
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