The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Disability Program Applications

The Russell Sage Foundation generously provided financial support for this project through grant number #94-17-03. This research was also supported by the U.S. Social Security Administration through grant #5 DRC12000002-06 to the National Bureau of Economic Research as part of the SSA Disability Research Consortium which facilitated data acquisition. We are grateful to Tokunbo Oluwole and Lynn Fisher at the Social Security Administration for providing us with data. We thank Diane Alexander, Misha Dworsky, Melanie Guldi, Lee Lockwood, Austin Nichols, Laura Wherry, and participants in seminars at the University of Georgia, Georgia State, Cornell, Syracuse, UC Davis, University of Central Florida, the National Tax Association, the Association for Public Policy and Management, the Society of Labor Economists, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the American Society of Health Economists for helpful comments. Louisa Abel, Mary Beth Dato, and Casey DeLano provided excellent research assistance. The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of SSA, any agency of the Federal Government, or the NBER.