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Preliminary Program

Annual DRC Research Meeting National Press Club, Washington, DC 20045

August 3rd

, 2016

Wednesday, August 3rd

8:00-8:30 am Coffee and Registration

8:30-8:45 am Welcoming Remarks

8:45-10:15 Panel 1: Drivers of Disability Rolls

Long-Run Drivers of Disability Rates

Raj Chetty and John Friedman (Harvard University)

The Impact of Stricter Criteria for Disability Insurance on Disability Enrollment and Labor

Market Outcomes

Stefan Staubli (University of Calgary) and Josef Zweimueller (University of Zurich)

Child Participation in SSI: Cross- and Within-State Determinants of Caseload Growth

Purvi Sevak (Mathematica) and Lucie Schmidt (Williams College)

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 Panel 2: Entry and Exit onto Disability

The Effect of Attorneys on the Determination Process

Nicole Maestas (Harvard Medical School), Hilary Hoynes (University of California Berkeley)

and Alexander Strand (Social Security Administration)

The Effect of Application Costs on Selection into Disability Programs

Manasi Deshpande (MIT) and Yue Li (University of Albany, SUNY)

Paths to Exit from the Federal Disability Programs

Priyanka Anand and Yonatan Ben-Shalom (Mathematica)

12:00 Box Lunch

12:30 Introduction of Luncheon Speaker

1:15-2:45 Panel 3: Wellbeing of the Disabled

The Material Well-being of Disabled Retirees: Evidence from the PSID

Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago) and Wallace Mok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

SSI and SSDI Beneficiaries with Intellectual Disabilities

Gina Livermore, Maura Bardos, Karen Katz (Mathematica)

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Experiences of Low-Income Children with Disabilities as They Enter Early Adulthood

Denise Hoffman (Mathematica), Jeffrey Hemmeter (Social Security Administration), and

Michelle Bailey (Social Security Administration)

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-4:30 Panel 4: Interactions between Health Insurance Disability

Impact of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Applications to Federal Disability Programs

Jody Schimmel Hyde, Priyanka Anand, Margaret Colby, & Lauren Hula (Mathematica)

Quantifying the Health Insurance Needs of Employed and Potentially Employed Persons with

Disabilities

Alexis Henry, Jack Gettens, Pei Pei Lei (UMass Medical School)

Medical Care, Work, and Income Before Disability Application

David Cutler (Harvard University) and Ellen Meara (Dartmouth)

4:30 Closing Remarks

The NBER Disability Research Center and Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy (CSDP)

gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Social Security Administration (SSA) for this meeting. The

findings and conclusions are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of SSA, any agency of

the federal government, the NBER Retirement Research Center or Mathematica’s Center for Studying

Disability Policy (CSDP).