Incentives for the identification and treatment of children with disabilities: the supplemental security income program
研究补充保障收入（SSI）福利的可获得性和慷慨程度如何影响家庭识别孩子健康问题并申请SSI的可能性，发现福利增加会提高家庭识别孩子慢性障碍的概率，表明针对残疾儿童的现金补助有助于低收入儿童医疗问题的发现和治疗。
This paper examines how Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit availability and generosity affect the probability that families identify health problems in their children and move onto the SSI rolls. First, I observe that a liberalization of SSI eligibility in 1990 was followed by a substantial re-evaluation of the health status of low-income children by their parents. Then, I find that increases in SSI benefits raise the likelihood that a family identifies a chronic impairment in their child. My results indicate that cash assistance targeted on children with disabilities promotes the detection and treatment of medical problems in low-income children.