Too fat to work
The incapacity benefit system in the UK is intended to provide an income support for those unable to work. Like any government program, many of the beneficiaries are in dire need of the money and are...
View ArticleWhy have disability rates decreased?
“Although the evidence was mixed for the 1980s and it is difficult to pinpoint when in the 1990s the decline began, during the mid- and late 1990s, the panel found consistent declines on the order of...
View ArticleCash and Counselling
Many economists claim that insurance that gives sick people cash to pay for their medical treatments is more efficient than insurance that provides in-kind medical services directly. Although...
View ArticleWhy are more than 35 percent of elderly Swedes on disability?
“The proportion of men collecting disability benefits at older ages varies greatly across countries — for example, more than 35 percent of 64-year-old men in Sweden and more than 25 percent of those in...
View ArticleAre you really disabled?
When the government extends benefits to individuals with specific characteristics (e.g., poverty, disability), the number of people who claim to have these characteristics will necessarily increase....
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Disability Benefits Around the World
In a series of papers, Coile, Milligan and Wise look at Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. In the sixth installment of the series, the authors look specifically at disability...
View ArticleClaims-based Measures of Disability
How does one measure disability? This is a difficult question. Many health economists face an even more difficult question: how does one measured disability in claims? A paper by Ben-Shalom and...
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