This study investigates the impact of long-term care insurance (LTCI) on the non-health
consumption of elderly households. By exploiting a quasi-experiment on the public LTCI …

We survey the literature on social insurance, focusing on recent work that has connected
theory to evidence to make quantitative statements about welfare and optimal policy. Our …

What is the relationship between disability programs and financial distress? We provide the
first evidence on this relationship using several markers of financial distress: bankruptcy …

Leveraging unique administrative data and a sharp increase in benefit generosity in a
difference-in-differences research design, we estimate the impact of workers' compensation …

Abstract The Great Recession spurred renewed interest in the moral hazard effects of the
Unemployment Insurance (UI) program, however little research has focused on determining …

We study the effect of state recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on workers' compensation
(WC) benefit receipt among adults 40-62 years. We find that WC receipt declines in …

People often retire at a different age than expected. We construct a measure of retirement
timing uncertainty and find that the standard deviation of the difference between retirement …

We study whether the work capacity of the older working population responds to improved
pain management therapy access. We use the adoption of state recreational marijuana laws …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) expansions on household
food insecurity in the United States using the Food Security Supplement to the Current …

Using a quasi-natural experiment of the Urban-Rural Transportation Integration
Demonstration County (UTIDC) policy, we investigated the causal impact of urban-rural …