comparing US disability policy with that in other Western industrialized countries and identifying research issues that are …

The disability system in the United States spends approximately $120 billion a year to keep millions of working … combines work and partial disability benefits is that it may attract new entrants onto the disability rolls. A key insight of …

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides … rating in WC lead to under-accommodation and inefficient labor market outcomes after workplace disability. Counterfactual …-related disability but also leads to welfare gains for most workers …

-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs). Another U.S. public assistance program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), provides food … difficult may be induced to opt out of the labor force and into SSI in order to maintain access to food assistance. This study … is the first to examine whether work requirements associated with food assistance eligibility lead to an increase in SSI …