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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20840
来源ID	Working Paper 20840
	Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants
	David H. Autor; Nicole Maestas; Kathleen J. Mullen; Alexander Strand
发表日期	2015-01-12
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	This paper measures the causal effect of time out of the labor force on subsequent employment of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits. Using a unique Social Security Administration workload database to identify exogenous variation in decision times induced by differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer processing times reduce the employment and earnings of SSDI applicants for multiple years following application, with the effects concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in initial processing time reduces long-run “substantial gainful activity” rates by 0.36 percentage points (3.5%) and long-run annual earnings by $178 (5.1%). Because applicants initially denied benefits spend on average more than 15 additional months appealing their denials, previous estimates of the benefit receipt effect are confounded with the effect of delays on subsequent employment. Accounting separately for these channels, we find that the receipt effect is at least 50% larger than previously estimated. Combining the delay and benefits receipt channels reveals that the SSDI application process reduces subsequent employment of applicants on the margin of award by twice as much as prior literature suggests.
主题	Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20840
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578514
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	David H. Autor,Nicole Maestas,Kathleen J. Mullen,et al. Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants. 2015.