Incentives for the identification and treatment of children with disabilities: the supplemental security income program

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kubik, JD
• 署名单位: Syracuse University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(99)00009-2
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 187-215
• 关键词: supplemental security income; child health

摘要

This paper examines how Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit availability and generosity affect the probability that families identify health problems in their children and move onto the SSI rolls. First, I observe that a liberalization of SSI eligibility in 1990 was followed by a substantial re-evaluation of the health status of low-income children by their parents. Then, I find that increases in SSI benefits raise the likelihood that a family identifies a chronic impairment in their child. My results indicate that cash assistance targeted on children with disabilities promotes the detection and treatment of medical problems in low-income children. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.