How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?

By Hugo Benı́tez-Silva, Moshe Buchinsky, H. Chan, Sofia Cheidvasser, John Rust. 2000

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Health and work of the elderly: subjective health measures, reporting errors and endogeneity in the relationship between health and work (2009, background): “Benitez-Silva et al. (2004) test the hypothesis of rational unbiased reporting of disability status.”
Disability, gender, and the British labour market (2006, methodology): “reported measures tended to under-estimate the effect of disability status on labour force decisions and Benitez-Silva et al. (2003) using the same Health and Retirement Study, but examining a sub-sample of disability applicants, found that such individuals did not on average”
The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security (2013, background): “In terms of the third item, there is an extensive body of literature that examines biases in self-reported indicators (see, e.g., Benitez-Silva et al. 2004; Krueger and Schkade 2008; Ravallion 2012).”
The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment (2003, background): “See also Hausman and Halpern [1986], Burkhauser, Butler, and Weathers [1999], Kreider [1999], and Benitez-Silva et al. [2000] for theoretical and empirical models of the DI application decision.”
Can Social Security Explain Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States? (2010, background): “See Autor and Duggan (2003), Chen and van der Klaauw (2008), and Benitez-Silva et al. (2004) for recent analyses of SSDI.”