Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Espen Bratberg (), Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

No 07/12, Working Papers in Economics from University of Bergen, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the working-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving disability benefits affects their own likelihood of receiving benefits positively. This finding is robust to a range of different specifications, including family fixed effects.

Keywords: Disability; intergenerational correlations; siblings fixed effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2012-05-09
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