Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between
employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between these two …

A crucial issue is whether social insurance affects work decisions through income or
substitution effects. We examine this in the context of US Social Security Disability Insurance …

We exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of Dutch disability reforms to estimate the
effects of decreased DI (disability insurance) generosity on behavior of existing recipients …

Public disability insurance (DI) programs in many countries face pressure to reduce their
generosity in order to remain sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of …

Experience-rated disability insurance (DI) premiums are often advocated as a means to
stimulate firms to reduce DI inflow and increase DI outflow. To assess the size of these …

I provide a quantitative assessment of the labor market and welfare effects of return-to-work
policies targeted at disability insurance (DI) recipients. I do so by estimating a life-cycle …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between
employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between these two …

How important is adjustment cost for individuals who face a change in work incentives
induced by a policy change? I provide the first estimate of adjustment cost in the context of a …

This paper presents the first evaluation of the French Disabled Workers Act of 1987, which
aimed to promote the employment of disabled people in the private sector. We use a panel …

Disability insurance provides protection against health shocks that limit the ability to work. In
most countries, these programmes are large and growing, both in expenditure and in …