Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)

Presentations from The Workshop on Health and Disability among Working-Age Adults: Trends, Disparities, and Implications for Employment and Federal Programs

October 15, 2024  Researchers: Ari Ne’eman, Douglas Kruse, and Nicole Maestas University Affiliate:  Harvard University and Rutgers University The National Academies’ Committee on Population held a public workshop to bring together an interdisciplinary group of experts to discuss trends in disability and disabling morbidity among the U.S. working-age population. Workshop participants sought to help the […]

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The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession

Citation Maestas, Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, and Alexander Strand. “The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession.” Journal of Public Economics 199 (2021): 104410. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25338/w25338.pdf. Abstract We examine the effect of cyclical job displacement during the Great Recession on the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. Exploiting variation in the severity

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