Disability Benefit Take-Up and Local Labor Market Conditions
利用世界油气价格冲击导致的产油县劳动力市场变化，研究当地就业状况如何影响残疾福利申请，发现SSDI支付对收入的弹性约为-0.29，与早期研究相似。
Exploiting county-level variation in oil-producing areas from shocks to world oil and gas prices, we study how local labor market conditions affect disability take-up. We extend well-known previous work using a similar research design by analyzing a different price shock; a larger, more representative set of labor markets; and a more recent period marked by skyrocketing disability payments. Our estimated elasticity for SSDI payments with respect to earnings of -0.29 is surprisingly similar to earlier findings. Our preferred SSI elasticity estimate of -0.16 is smaller than previous findings, but we show that SSI programmatic changes explain most of the difference.