An empirical analysis of the social security disability application, appeal, and award process

Autor:	John Rust, Moshe Buchinsky, Hiu Man Chan, Sofia Sheidvasser, Hugo Benitez-Silva
Rok vydání:	1999
Předmět:	Social security Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Economics and Econometrics Labour economics Actuarial science Process (engineering) Appeal Economics Duration (project management) Private information retrieval ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Zdroj:	Labour Economics. 6:147-178
ISSN:	0927-5371
DOI:	10.1016/s0927-5371(99)00014-7
Popis:	We provide an empirical analysis of the Social Security disability application, award, . and appeal process using the Health and Retirement Survey HRS . We show that the appeal option increases the award probability from 46% to 73%. However, this comes at the cost of significant delays: the duration between application and award is over three times longer for those who are awarded benefits after one or more stages of appeal. Our results reveal the importance of self-selection in application and appeal decisions. In particular, an individual's self-assessed disability status emerges as one of the most powerful predictors of application, appeal, and award decisions. q 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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