The Effect of Disability Insurance Payments on Beneficiaries’ Earnings

This research was supported by Social Security Administration Grant #1 DRC12000002-01 to the Disability Research Consortium at the National Bureau of Economic Research, as well as the UC Berkeley Burch Center. We thank Paul O’Leary for helping us to understand the Disability Analysis File data, and we thank Richard Burkhauser, David Card, Matias Cattaneo, Manasi Deshpande, Peter Ganong, Hilary Hoynes, Simon Jäger, Magne Mogstad, Zhuan Pei, Jesse Rothstein, Stefan Staubli, Geno Smolensky, Lesley Turner, David Weaver, and Danny Yagan for helpful suggestions, as well as seminar participants at George Washington University, Monash University, NBER, UC Berkeley, University of Melbourne, University of Michigan, University of New South Wales and Virginia Commonwealth University. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.