The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Disability Insurance Program: Evidence from the Great Recession

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Maestas ◽  
Kathleen Mullen ◽  
Alexander Strand
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Insurance Program

Local Economic Conditions and Fertility from the Great Depression through the Great Recession

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 236-240
Author(s):  
Jessamyn Schaller ◽  
Price Fishback ◽  
Kelli Marquardt
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Data Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Income Shocks ◽  
Entire Sample ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Per Capita

This paper reexamines the association between local economic conditions and fertility using a new dataset of county-level birthrates and per capita income in the United States spanning the period 1937-2016. Using a panel data model, we estimate that growth in local income is positively associated with birthrates over our entire sample period and that the strength of that association peaked during the 1960-1990 period and has declined in recent decades. We additionally estimate dynamic responses to local income shocks, finding that birthrates remain elevated for up to four years after a shock.

scholarly journals Family-related Disparities in College Enrollment across the Great Recession

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 689-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Cozzolino ◽  
Chelsea Smith ◽  
Robert L. Crosnoe
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
College Enrollment ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Economic Volatility ◽  
Early Family ◽  
Insight Into

The economic crisis of the Great Recession in the late 2000s had implications for the intergenerational transmission of inequality within families. Studying patterns of college enrollment across the Great Recession among U.S. youth from diverse family contexts provides insight into how economic volatility can either compound or undercut the advantages that some parents can give their children. Although college enrollment among 18- to 21-year-olds did not decline during or after the Great Recession, analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979–Young Adult cohort revealed that this general trend subsumed variability by family history, local economic conditions, and age. Histories of family stability and sufficiency were associated with higher odds of college enrollment over time and across age, but this advantage was largest during the Recession in high-unemployment communities. These results illuminate how life course consequences of early family life can fluctuate with volatility and opportunity in the broader economy.

The Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Confidence in Key Institutions and Interpersonal Trust after the Great Recession

2013 ◽  
Vol 650 (1) ◽  
pp. 274-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay A. Owens ◽  
Karen S. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
County Level ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Aggregate Effects

The effects of recessions on social and political attitudes are likely smaller than the effects on employment, income, and wealth, but relatively modest aggregate effects may be masking differences in attitudes between individuals who live in areas most and least affected by recessions. To investigate social and political attitudes in geographical context, we exploit a new data source that matches individuals to their county of residence to analyze whether changing economic conditions at the county level are associated with changing confidence in major social institutions and with changing levels of interpersonal trust. We find that individuals in particularly affected counties are more likely to decrease their support for organized labor and the federal government. County-level hardship does not appear to be associated with changes in interpersonal measures of trust, however, suggesting that two very different processes may be at play.

scholarly journals The Role of Migration as Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis and EMU

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1497-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Huber
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Adjustment Mechanism ◽  
Substantial Heterogeneity ◽  
The Eu

Using ELFS data from 2004 to 2014 we analyse labour migration as an adjustment mechanism to asymmetric regional labour demand shocks shortly before, during and after the Great Recession in the EU. The results suggest that in this period migration was rather responsive to regional economic conditions, but also point to a substantial heterogeneity across demographic groups, periods and country groups. The mobility of high‑skilled persons and foreign born contributed much more strongly to the adjustment of labour markets than the migration of less‑skilled and natives. Furthermore, among the large integration steps from 2004 to 2014 (i.e., the accession of 12 countries to the EU and the successive liberalisation of immigration from the countries joining the EU after 2004 and Euro accession) mainly the EU‑enlargements worked to improve the adjustment capability of European labour markets through migration.

scholarly journals The Great Recession and Children’s Mental Health in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melisa Bubonya ◽  
Deborah Cobb-Clark ◽  
Daniel Christensen ◽  
Sarah Johnson ◽  
Stephen Zubrick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Detectable Effect ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Great Recession

This paper analyzes the effects of “shocks” to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the Great Recession, on children’s mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case study as despite little change in actual unemployment rates, levels of economic uncertainty grew. This affords us the ability to examine the effects of shocks to economic expectations independent of any actual changes to economic conditions. We draw on and link data from multiple sources, including several waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (2004–2010), a consumer sentiment survey, and data on local economic conditions. Using our purpose-built data set, we estimate difference-in-differences models to identify plausibly causal effects. We find, for boys, there is no detectable effect of community-level unemployment expectations shocks on mental health. For girls, however, there are modest increases in mental health problems and externalizing behaviors, as measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). We additionally find no discernible change in mother’s psychological distress as a result of expectations shocks. These results are stable after controlling for actual labor market conditions.

scholarly journals Household Formation and the Great Recession

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Dunne
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Household Formation ◽  
The Great Recession

During the Great Recession, the rate at which Americans formed households fell sharply. Though the rate has recently picked up, it isn’t fast enough to make up for the shortfall in household formation that occurred over the last several years. An analysis of recent household formation patterns shows that the greatest shortfall occurred among young adults and that it is related to weak economic conditions. Housing choices have shifted as well, with a greater proportion of young households living in rental housing rather than owner-occupied homes.

Disability Insurance in the Great Recession: Ease of Access, Program Enrollment, and Local Hysteresis

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 486-490
Author(s):  
Melissa S. Kearney ◽  
Brendan M. Price ◽  
Riley Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Processing Times ◽  
Program Enrollment ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
Social Security Disability ◽  
Access Program

We examine the interaction between Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) access and economic shocks during the Great Recession by exploiting exogenous variation in SSDI appeals processing time–a measure of hassle or access–between neighboring zip codes assigned to different hearing offices. During the Great Recession, longer processing times led to lower SSDI enrollment in places that experienced more severe labor market downturns. In the full sample, processing time has no clear effect on the pace of employment recovery. However, among severely shocked places with high baseline SSDI enrollment, those with longer processing times saw faster recovery in employment rates.

“JOB-KILLER” BILLS IN TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND LEAVE-POLICY AGENDAS BEFORE AND AFTER THE GREAT RECESSION*

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-347
Author(s):  
Cassandra Engeman
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Sick Leave Policies

How do economic conditions influence social movements' capacity to set legislative agendas? This research examines multiple efforts to expand family, medical, and sick leave policies in California across almost two decades spanning the Great Recession. Longitudinal analysis in a state with political conditions favorable to leave policy agendas permits close consideration of how varying economic conditions shape social movement influence in the policy process. Drawing from various qualitative sources, this research finds that, after the recession, leave bills were more often held in appropriations committees for their estimated costs to the state and anticipated pressures on funding sources. Weak economic conditions also shifted leave advocates' priorities away from leave policy issues toward maintaining public employment and services. The article advances social movement research by showing the mechanisms by which state fiscal capacity shapes social movement strategies and interacts with political conditions at the early, agenda-setting stages of the legislative process.

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