David Autor

Autor and Duggan (2003): QJE

The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), February 2003, 157 - 206.

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Table 1. Potential DI Income as a Percentage of Current Earnings for Nonelderly Males at Various Percentiles of the Wage Distribution, 1979 and 1999 (excel)
Table 2. DI Receipt and Labor Force Participation by Gender, Education, and Age 1979, 1984, AND 1999 (excel)
Table 3. Distribution of Qualifying Impairments of DI Awardees at Five-Year Intervals, 1983-1999 (excel)
Table 4. Change in DI Rolls and Labor Force Participation of Nonelderly Adults: OLS and Instrumental Variables Estimates (zip)
Table 5. Impact of Employment Losses on DI Applications Flows 1978-1998: Reduced-Form and Instrumental Variables Estimates (zip)
Table 6. Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Impact of Employment Losses on Labor Force Exit of High School Dropouts, 1979–1998
Table 7. Determinants of Growth in DI Rolls, 1984 –1998
Table 8. Determinants of Change in High School Dropout Labor Force Participation, 1984–1998

Figure 1. DI Termination Rates per 1000 Beneciaries by Reason, 1978–2000 (excel)
Figure 2. The Choice of Disability Applicant Status—Immediately, Conditional, Never—as a Function of Earnings and Health (excel)
Figure 3. Impact of Projected Log Employment Shocks on Disability Applications per 1000 Nonelderly Adults at Five-Year Intervals, 1979–1998
Figure 4. DI Awards and Current and Steady State Recipients per Nonelderly Adult Population, 1976–2001 (excel)

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SSDI and SSI recipients, applicants and awards by state and year (excel)