Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants

Andreas Kostøl and Magne Mogstad

American Economic Review, 2015, vol. 105, issue 5, 137-41

Abstract: Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income, and consumption of awarded and rejected DI applicants, before and after the disability onset and the allowance decision. Next, we discuss how these descriptive results can be interpreted through the lens of alternative empirical approaches. Our analysis uses a Norwegian population panel data set with detailed information about every individual and household.

JEL-codes: D12 G22 I13 I18 J14 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20151063
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