The Impact of Disability Benefits on Labor Supply: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Autor, David H.; Duggan, Mark; Greenberg, Kyle; Lyle, David S.
• 署名单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University; United States Department of Defense; United States Army; United States Military Academy
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20150158
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 31-68
• 关键词: insurance receipt; veterans; rise; substitution; earnings; HEALTH; income

摘要

Combining administrative data from the US Army, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Social Security Administration, we analyze the effect of the VA's Disability Compensation (DC) program on veterans' labor force participation and earnings. We study the 2001 Agent Orange decision, a unique policy change that expanded DC eligibility for Vietnam veterans who served in theater but did not expand eligibility to other veterans of this era, to assess the causal effects of DC enrollment. We estimate that benefits receipt reduced veterans' labor force participation by 18 percentage points, though measured income net of transfer income rose on average.