How Disability Benefits in Early Life Affect Adult Outcomes -- by Manasi Deshpande, Alessandra Voena, Jason B. Weitze

We thank the National Science Foundation (CAREER Grant 1941538) and the Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets for funding this research. Deshpande worked as an economist at the Social Security Administration. We thank Ted Horan, Mark Sarney, and Jim Sears at SSA for making this research possible, and Tersalee Abacan-Gritz, Michelle Bailey, and Yonghong Shang at SSA for providing data. We thank Yuejun Chen and Marcia Ruiz Pulgar for excellent research assistance. For helpful comments, we thank Orazio Attanasio, Ben Danforth, Mark Duggan, Jeffrey Hemmeter, Michael Keane, Douglas Miller, Timothy Moore, David Price, Alexander Strand, Melanie Wasserman, and seminar participants at the Chicago Fed, the Cowles conference, LEW conference in Sydney, LSE, Purdue, Simon Fraser University, Tinbergen, UI-Chicago, Yale, the Brucchi Luchino Conference, the Triangle Applied Micro Conference, CePR-Banca d'Italia Labor Workshop, and NBER Summer Institute. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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