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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Empirical Evidence: Bound-Parsons Debate<br />

Bound proposes a technique to bound effect of DI on LFP rate<br />

Uses data on LFP of rejected applicants as a counterfactual<br />

Idea: if rejected applicants do not work, then surely DI recipients<br />

would not have worked<br />

Rejected applicants’LFP rate is an upper bound for LFP rate of DI<br />

recipients absent DI<br />

Results: Only 30% of rejected applicants return to work<br />

Earn less than half of the mean non-DI wage<br />

Implies that at most 1/3 of the trend in male LFP decline can be<br />

explained by shift to DI<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 152 / 207

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