United States Social Security Administration

The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance

We investigate the long-term effects of cash assistance on beneficiaries and their children among participants in the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Treated families in this randomized experiment received thousands of dollars in extra government benefits for three...

Differences in disability insurance allowance rates

Abstract Allowance rates for disability insurance (DI) applications vary by race and ethnicity, but it is unclear to what extent these differences are artifacts of other differing socio‐economic and health characteristics. This paper uses the 2015 American Community Survey linked...