This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known
about the various factors that have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall …

Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects
of programs or policies. In the last two decades, much research has been done on the …

The authors investigate potential discrimination against people with disabilities through a
field experiment that sent job applications to 6,016 accounting positions for which the …

This chapter discusses how applied researchers in corporate finance can address
endogeneity concerns. We begin by reviewing the sources of endogeneity—omitted …

This paper provides an introduction and “user guide” to Regression Discontinuity (RD)
designs for empirical researchers. It presents the basic theory behind the research design …

We present the first causal estimates of the effect of Social Security Disability Insurance
benefit receipt on labor supply using all program applicants. We use administrative data to …

We use administrative data on the quarterly employment and earnings of Pennsylvanian
workers in the 1970s and 1980s matched to Social Security Administration death records …

This paper exploits the effectively random assignment of judges to Disability Insurance
cases to estimate the causal impact of Disability Insurance receipt on labor supply. We find …

Abstract The US Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program has grown dramatically
over the last 20 years in size and expense. This growth poses significant risks to the …

" This volume is an excellent overview of the dimensions and sources of American poverty.
John Iceland combines statistical data, theoretical arguments, and historical information in a …