Earnings of rejected applicants to the Social Security Disability Insurance program

Perry Singleton

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2012.02.028

Earnings of rejected applicants to the Social Security Disability Insurance program

Perry Singleton

Department of Economics

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This study bounds the potential earnings of accepted disability applicants by the post-application earnings of rejected applicants. Compositional differences between the two groups are addressed using a reweighting estimator. As shown, the bound on earnings is similar regardless of weighting.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	147-150
Number of pages	4
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	116
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.02.028
State	Published - Aug 2012

Keywords

Disability Insurance
Earnings
Health
Reweighting estimator
Social Security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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