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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Autor and Duggan 2003<br />

Unemployment would be 0.65% higher if not for post-‘84 trends in DI<br />

participation<br />

Trace decline in LFP to the rise in DI over the past two decades via:<br />

The 1984 inclusion of mental illness in DI eligibility<br />

Rising wage inequality (combined with the progressively of system)<br />

Bottom line: DI applications are clearly sensitive to incentives<br />

But evidence is insuffi cient to make welfare statements<br />

Essential to decompose benefit effects into income and price elasticities<br />

to make normative judgment<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 165 / 207

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