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

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Kearney ◽  
Brendan Price ◽  
Riley Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Program Enrollment ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
Access Program

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.

scholarly journals Disability Insurance and the Great Recession

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Maestas ◽  
Kathleen J. Mullen ◽  
Alexander Strand
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social Security Disability

The US Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program is designed to provide income support to workers who become unable to work because of a severe, long-lasting disability. In this study, we use administrative data to estimate the effect of labor market conditions, as measured by the unemployment rate, on the number of SSDI applications, the number and composition of initial allowances and denials, and the timing of applications relative to disability onset. We analyze the period of the Great Recession, and compare this period with business cycle effects over the past two decades, from 1992 through 2012.

scholarly journals The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ganong ◽  
Jeffrey B. Liebman
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Percentage Point Increase ◽  
The Past ◽  
Point Increase ◽  
Program Enrollment ◽  
Nutrition Assistance

One-in-seven Americans received benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 2011, an all-time high. We analyze changes in program enrollment over the past two decades, quantifying the contributions of unemployment and state policy changes. Using instrumental variables to address measurement error, we estimate that a 1 percentage point increase in unemployment raises enrollment by 15 percent. Unemployment explains most of the decrease in enrollment in the late 1990s, state policy changes explain more of the increase in enrollment in the early 2000s, and unemployment explains most of the increase in enrollment in the aftermath of the Great Recession. (JEL E24, E32, H53, H75, I12, I18, I58)

scholarly journals Disability Insurance and the Great Recession

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Maestas ◽  
Kathleen Mullen ◽  
Alexander Strand
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
The Great Recession

scholarly journals Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (S1) ◽  
pp. S445-S475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas I. Mueller ◽  
Jesse Rothstein ◽  
Till M. von Wachter
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
The Great Recession
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