% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw19672, title = "Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession", author = "Mueller, Andreas I and Rothstein, Jesse and von Wachter, Till M", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "19672", year = "2013", month = "November", doi = {10.3386/w19672}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w19672", abstract = {Disability insurance (DI) applications and awards are countercyclical. One potential explanation is that unemployed individuals who exhaust their Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits use DI as a form of extended benefits. We exploit the haphazard pattern of UI benefit extensions in the Great Recession to identify the effect of UI exhaustion on DI application, using both aggregate data at the state-month and state-week levels and microdata on unemployed individuals in the Current Population Survey. We find no indication that expiration of UI benefits causes DI applications. Our estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects of meaningful magnitude.}, }