The Effect of Disability Payments on Household Earnings and Income: Evidence from the SSI Children's Program
利用社会保障局行政数据，通过断点回归和双重差分法，发现失去儿童SSI补助后父母通过增加收入完全弥补损失，且减少家庭其他成员的残疾申请但不影响实际领取。
I estimate the effect of removing children with disabilities from Supplemental Security Income (SSI) on parental earnings and household disability receipt. Using administrative data from the Social Security Administration (SSA), I implement regression discontinuity and differencein- differences designs based on changes in SSA's budget for child medical reviews. I find that parents fully offset the SSI loss with increased earnings, and the loss of the child's SSI payment reduces disability applications by parents and siblings but does not reduce their actual disability receipt. I examine alternative hypotheses for the large parental earnings response.