Disability Insurance Adjudication Criteria and the Incidence of Hard-to-Diagnose Medical Conditions

Campolieti Michele ()
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Campolieti Michele: University of Toronto

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2006, vol. 5, issue 1, 25

Abstract: I examine the effects of a change in Canada Pension Plan disability program adjudication criteria on individual reports of medical problems. The estimates from this paper suggest that more stringent screening requirements are associated with a statistically significant decline in the reports of hard-to-diagnose conditions, such as low back pain. On the other hand, my estimates also indicate that changes in adjudication requirements do not have a statistically significant effect on the reports of easier to diagnose conditions.

Keywords: disability insurance; adjudication criteria; hard-to-diagnose medical conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.2202/1538-0645.1536

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