Affiliation:
1. Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor and Chair of the Policy Analysis and Management Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
2. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Abstract
In this paper we provide a context for evaluating the goals and effectiveness of current disability policy. We review the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs and examine trends in disability benefit receipt and employment among working-age people with disabilities. We discuss the difficulties in crafting efficient and equitable programs for this difficult to target, heterogeneous population. We conclude that changes in policy rather than in underlying health are most likely behind the increases in disability benefit receipt and the declines in employment of working-age people with disabilities over the 1990s business cycle. This feature contains short articles on topics that are currently on the agendas of policymakers, thus illustrating the role of economic analysis in illuminating current debates. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to C. Eugene Steuerle, c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.
Publisher
American Economic Association
Subject
Economics and Econometrics,Economics and Econometrics
Cited by
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