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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard : Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

García Gómez, Pilar - 2014

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …

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New Evidence on Disability Benefit Claims in the UK : The Role of Health and the Local Labour Market

Roberts, Jennifer - 2019

at reducing the number of claims and targeting benefits more closely to those with the greatest health need. At the same … framework to explore the relative importance of health status, benefit generosity and local labour market conditions for … line with older evidence, while health status is clearly important, geographic variation in labour market conditions and …

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Workers' Moral Hazard and Insurer Effort in Disability Insurance

Koning, Pierre; Lent, Max - 2022

Disability Insurance (DI) may affect workers' outcomes such as their probability to enter DI, to recover, and their employment. Supplementary insurance may increase these moral hazard effects, but also increases the financial gains of private insurers to reduce benefit costs. With increased...

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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Borghans, Lex - 2012

In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial “social support...

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Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2018

exploit a 1993 policy reform in the Netherlands which tightened disability insurance (DI) criteria for existing claimants, and …

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Making Disability Work? The Effects of Financial Incentives on Partially Disabled Workers

Koning, Pierre - 2016

individual data from the Netherlands from 2006 to 2013. We focus on workers receiving partial DI benefits and with substantial …

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Take-Up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits

Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022

In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We develop a simple...

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Family Welfare Cultures

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2014

argue the determinants of poverty or poor health are correlated across generations, so that children's welfare participation …

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The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Jones, Melanie - 2017

larger for more severe disability onset, for those who did not previously report a long-term health condition, and for those …

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

Kostøl, Andreas R. - 2015

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...

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