archive of the former site EconWPA.wustl.edu

Please do not link or reference this page. Use one of the following URLs:
econpapers.repec.org as http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/wpawuwppe/9712001.htm
ideas.repec.org as http://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwppe/9712001.html

An Empirical Analysis of the Social Security Disability Application, Appeal, and Award Process

Paper:ewp-pe/9712001
From: John Rust <   > 
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:53:44 GMT
Date (revised): Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:08:06 GMT
Date (revised): Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:51:24 GMT
Date (revised): Tue, 7 Apr 1998 05:34:39 GMT
Date (revised): Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:10:02 -0400

Title: An Empirical Analysis of the Social Security Disability Application, Appeal, and Award Process
Authors: Hugo Benitez-Silva (Yale University) Moshe Buchinsky (Brown University) Hiu-Man Chan (Yale University) John Rust (Yale University) and Sofia Sheivasser (Yale University)
Contact:
Comments: TeX file, Postscript version submitted, 30 pages
JEL: H5 EWWP-References: unassigned JR 1
Report-no: for special issue of Labour Economics on International Health and Retirement Surveys Conference in Amsterdam, 8/96

Abstract:

Abstract: We provide an empirical analysis of the Social Security disability application, award, and appeal process using the Health and Retirement Survey. 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.

Postscript files:(viewing .ps) archive: 9712001.ps or 9712001.ps.gz is 118321 bytes, 9-12-98.
Acrobat pdf files:(viewing .pdf) archive: 9712001.pdf is 318156 bytes, 9-13-98, or 9712001.pdf.gz
Access statistics for this paper at LogEc which is a part of the RePEc project as was/is EconWPA.
Translate to another language with babel.altavista.com EconWPA reference ewp-pe/9712001
RePEc reference RePEc:wpa:wuwppe:9712001 send e-mail to

EconWPA began as a conversation between Bob Parks and Larry Blume on January 28, 1993. I located Paul Ginsparg's archive (then xxx.lanl.gov) and he graciously installed his software on a Sun Sparc system which was supporting the department of economics email and computation. EconWPA began accepting papers July 1, 1993 and had ftp, email, gopher and web interfaces. The web interface for submissions was engineered into existence in July 1995. A complete and catastrophic machine failure in 1999 caused the loss of EconWPA's email new paper announcment service at which time there were over 15,000 subscriptions with over 8,000 unique email addresses.

In 2005, Arts and Sciences commandeered the computing services that I had provided to the Department of Economics since 1987. Some might say that the department was sold out, others would (erroneously) claim that centralization is efficient, and still others would claim that I have few marketing skills.

I was told that I could keep operating EconWPA (as well as many other services including rfe.wustl.edu, barnett.wustl.edu, and three RePEc servers) but I would receive no support (hardware, software, or anthing else) and (as had been the case) no compensation. At that point, given the apparent low valuation of my activities by the department, and university, it made no sense for me to continue operating EconWPA or other services.

Thanks to all who have supported EconWPA in the past.

A Chinese curse states May you live in intersting times. I have. Bob Parks - Jan 2006