Do Federal Disability Insurance Participants Exaggerate Their Health Problems? A Study Using Anchoring Vignettes

Kajal Lahiri and Paul Noroski

A chapter in Essays in Honor of Subal Kumbhakar, 2024, vol. 46, pp 25-44 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: The authors examine whether or not applicants and recipients of federal disability insurance (DI) inflate their self-assessed health (SAH) problems relative to others. To do this, the authors employ a technique which uses anchoring vignettes. This approach allows them to examine how various cohorts of the population interpret survey questions associated with subjective self-assessments of health. The results of the analysis suggest that DI participantsdoinflate the severity of a given health problem, but by a small but significant degree. This tendency to exaggerate the severity of disability problems is much more apparent among those with more education (especially those with a college degree). In contrast, racial minorities tend to underestimate severity ratings for a given disability vignette when compared to their white peers.

Keywords: Disability insurance; self-assessed health; anchoring vignettes; CHOPIT model; differential item functioning; Health and Retirement Study; C25; C83; I12; I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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