The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment

By David H. Autor, M. Duggan. 2003

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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The work disincentive effects of the disability insurance program in the 1990s (2008, background): “Autor and Duggan (2003) also use differential time variation in average benefits across geographical regions to identify the impact of disability insurance on the labor force participation of low skilled workers.”
Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence (2014, neutral): “…generally countercyclical, and that local economic shocks can induce sharp rises in SSDI applications and subsequent awards (Black, Daniel and Sanders, 2002; Autor and Duggan, 2003; Autor, Dorn and Hanson, forthcoming). income (column 2); SSDI income (column 3); and no recorded income (column 4).”
Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment (2013, methodology): “Our 11See Blanchard and Katz (1992), Autor and Duggan (2003), Luttmer (2005), and Notowidigdo (2012) for other examples of work using variants of this “Bartik”measure.”
Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs (2018, neutral): “Since Autor and Duggan (2003), in-sample shock estimation typically involves split-sample techniques which exclude locations from their own shock estimate (e.g. leave-one-out averages).”
Behavioral Law and Economics (2006, background): “…of legally-mandated government programs such as disability and unemployment insurance (Katz and Meyer 1990; Gruber 1994; Cutler and Gruber 1996; Autor and Duggan 2003); work on the labor market examines the effects of many types of antidiscrimination laws (Heckman and Payner 1989; Donohue and…”
Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply (2019, positive): “Exploiting variation in DI allowances stemming from differences in disability examiner leniency, Maestas, Mullen, and Strand (2013) and Autor et al. (2017) find that DI receipt substantially reduces earnings and employment of applicants. French and Song (2014) pursue a similar strategy, using variat”
Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference* (2018, methodology): “32The leave-one-out version of the instrument in Bartik (1991) was originally proposed by Autor and Duggan (2003). In Online Appendix E.”
The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade (2016, neutral): “…in publicly provided medical care, consistent with more households qualifying for income-based health beneﬁts, and in government income assistance, consistent with more households meeting beneﬁts, whose take-up is typically associated with permanent exit from the labor force (Autor & Duggan 2003).”
Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being (2005, neutral): “…relative) but able to move to a relatively high-income locality, or intrinsically happy people might be better able to deal with the rougher aspects of 17 This predictor follows similar predictors used by Bartik (1991), Blanchard and Katz (1992), Bound and Holzer (2000) and Autor and Duggan (2003).”