Decline in Federal Disability Insurance Screening Stringency and Health Insurance Demand
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This paper proposes that the decline in federal disability insurance (DI) screening stringency raises the incentive of being uninsured. To support it, we provide a theoretical model and empirical evidence. JEL classification: I13, I18, H31, H51, H55
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