David C Stapleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1132791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Stapleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Stapleton |
| SIGNATURE | STAPLETON D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mathematica Policy Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9147-3046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Embedding a Proof-of-Concept Test in an At-Scale National Policy Experiment
A randomized experiment that measures the impact of a social policy in a sample of the population reveals whether the policy will work on average with universal application. An experiment that includes only the subset of the population that volunteers for the intervention generates narrower “proof-of-concept” evidence of whether the policy can work for motivated individuals. Both forms of learning carry value, yet evaluations rarely combine the t…
Comparison of Population-Representative and Volunteer Experiments
The Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) tested a $1 reduction in benefits per $2 earnings increase above the level at which Social Security Disability Insurance benefits drop from full to zero under current law. BOND included a rare and large “population-representative” experiment: It applied the rule to a nationwide, random sample of beneficiaries. BOND also included a parallel “volunteer” experiment: The same offset rules applied to a …
Federal and State Expenditures for Working-Age People With Disabilities in Fiscal Year 2014
Working-age people with disabilities are a large and growing segment of the U.S. population. Expenditures for a variety of federal and state safety-net programs to support these individuals—such as Social Security Disability Insurance, Supplemental Security Income, Medicare, Medicaid, and numerous others—are also growing. However, because expenditures are fragmented across so many programs, the full size and the extent of their growth have been o…
Predicting Receipt of Social Security Administration Disability Benefits Using Biomarkers and Other Physiological Measures
Physiological measures have moderate power to predict SSA disability benefit receipt
Firm-Level Early Intervention Incentives
The declining economic status of people with disabilities and the predicted 2016 depletion of the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund have generated considerable interest in proposals for reforming the DI program. Some proposals would hold firms partially responsible for a portion of the DI benefits paid to their recent employees. We analyze the implications of this approach for employers and workers in general, and specifically …
The Financial Repercussions of New Work-Limiting Health Conditions for Older Workers
This analysis used propensity score matching to construct a comparison sample that is observationally similar at baseline interview to older workers who later experience the onset of a medical condition that limits their ability to work. Using these matched onset and comparison samples, we studied trajectories in earnings and income around onset of the work limitation. Earnings two years after onset for the work-limitation group were 50% lower an…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Information about residents of institutional and noninstitutional group quarters (GQ), particularly those with disabilities, has been limited by gaps in survey data, and statistics based on data that exclude some or all GQ residents are biased as estimates of total population statistics. We used the 2006 and 2007 American Community Survey (ACS) to identify the distribution of working-age populations with and without disabilities by major residenc…
Health Care When Workers Need it Most
This study analyzed survey data on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries during the six-year window surrounding SSDI entitlement to illustrate changes in characteristics, insurance status, and health care access. We found that SSDI beneficiaries were less likely to be insured than the general working-age population, even three years before SSDI entitlement, and their uninsurance rates remained high until the third year after S…
Income Security for Workers
The current mix of public and private programs to support workers after they experience disability onset provides benefits to millions of workers and former workers. Yet, despite the large and growing costs of these programs, the inflation-adjusted household incomes of workers with disabilities have been falling for more than two decades, both absolutely and, especially, relative to the incomes of those without disabilities. The aging of the baby…
Federal Program Expenditures for Working-Age People With Disabilities
The authors estimated that the federal government spent $226 billion in 2002 on working-age people with disabilities, including both cash and in-kind benefits. These expenditures accounted for about 2.2% of the nation's gross domestic product and 11.3% of all federal outlays. States contributed an additional $50 billion under federal—state programs. The bulk of these expenditures provided income support and health care to working-age people with …
Effects of Welfare Reform on Statistics for Young Women With Disabilities
This article uses the Current Population Survey (CPS) data to show that changes in family policy implemented in the 1990s led to a substantial increase in the number of young women reporting work limitations. These changes also affected measures of socioeconomic outcomes for young women reporting limitations. Hence, the demographic changes mask the effects of changes in family policy and changes in other environmental factors on those outcomes. T…
The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities
An Assessment of the Representativeness of the SSI DA&A Study Panels
In this study, we used data derived from SSA administrative records to compare the composition of study panels, study samples, and the national population of former recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). We found that the panels represented the selected samples in the nine-study sites in terms of demographics, SSI program status, and medical eligibility. However, the selected samples varied in h…
Growth in Disability Benefits
1 point after one year -1 point after two years Concurrent: 0 points in year of change -1 point after one year -2 points after two years SSI-only: 0 points in year of change -1 point after one year -2 points after two years Beneficiaries Thompson and Van de Water 1975 Cromwell, Hurdle, and Wedig 1986
How Elastic is the Demand for Labor? A Comment
Ashar, V. G., and T. D. Wallace, A Sampling Study of Minimum Absolute Deviations Estimators, Operations Research 11 (1963), 747-758. Blattberg, Robert, and Thomas Sargent, with Non-Gaussian Disturbances-Some Sampling Results, Econometrica 39 (1971), 501-510. Chambers, John M., Cohn L. Mallows, and B. W. Stuck, A Method for Simulating Random Variables, Journal of the American Statistical Association 71 (1976), 340-344. Du Mouchel, William H., Stab…
Analyzing Political Participation Data with a Mimic Model
This chapter illustrates the use of multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) models by an application to political participation. In such models, observed indicators (that is, imperfect measures) of latent variables are used to make inferences about parameters of structural equations in which the latent variables are determined by observed exogenous causes. The model received its name from J6reskog and Goldberger (1975), although it had previous…
An Assessment of the Representativeness of the SSI DA&A Study Panels
In this study, we used data derived from SSA administrative records to compare the composition of study panels, study samples, and the national population of former recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). We found that the panels represented the selected samples in the nine-study sites in terms of demographics, SSI program status, and medical eligibility. However, the selected samples varied in h…
Federal Program Expenditures for Working-Age People With Disabilities
The authors estimated that the federal government spent $226 billion in 2002 on working-age people with disabilities, including both cash and in-kind benefits. These expenditures accounted for about 2.2% of the nation's gross domestic product and 11.3% of all federal outlays. States contributed an additional $50 billion under federal—state programs. The bulk of these expenditures provided income support and health care to working-age people with …
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Information about residents of institutional and noninstitutional group quarters (GQ), particularly those with disabilities, has been limited by gaps in survey data, and statistics based on data that exclude some or all GQ residents are biased as estimates of total population statistics. We used the 2006 and 2007 American Community Survey (ACS) to identify the distribution of working-age populations with and without disabilities by major residenc…
Income Security for Workers
The current mix of public and private programs to support workers after they experience disability onset provides benefits to millions of workers and former workers. Yet, despite the large and growing costs of these programs, the inflation-adjusted household incomes of workers with disabilities have been falling for more than two decades, both absolutely and, especially, relative to the incomes of those without disabilities. The aging of the baby…
Predicting Receipt of Social Security Administration Disability Benefits Using Biomarkers and Other Physiological Measures
Physiological measures have moderate power to predict SSA disability benefit receipt
Analyzing Political Participation Data with a Mimic Model
This chapter illustrates the use of multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) models by an application to political participation. In such models, observed indicators (that is, imperfect measures) of latent variables are used to make inferences about parameters of structural equations in which the latent variables are determined by observed exogenous causes. The model received its name from J6reskog and Goldberger (1975), although it had previous…
Analyzing Political Participation Data with a Mimic Model
This chapter illustrates the use of multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) models by an application to political participation. In such models, observed indicators (that is, imperfect measures) of latent variables are used to make inferences about parameters of structural equations in which the latent variables are determined by observed exogenous causes. The model received its name from J6reskog and Goldberger (1975), although it had previous…
How Elastic is the Demand for Labor? A Comment
Ashar, V. G., and T. D. Wallace, A Sampling Study of Minimum Absolute Deviations Estimators, Operations Research 11 (1963), 747-758. Blattberg, Robert, and Thomas Sargent, with Non-Gaussian Disturbances-Some Sampling Results, Econometrica 39 (1971), 501-510. Chambers, John M., Cohn L. Mallows, and B. W. Stuck, A Method for Simulating Random Variables, Journal of the American Statistical Association 71 (1976), 340-344. Du Mouchel, William H., Stab…
Growth in Disability Benefits
1 point after one year -1 point after two years Concurrent: 0 points in year of change -1 point after one year -2 points after two years SSI-only: 0 points in year of change -1 point after one year -2 points after two years Beneficiaries Thompson and Van de Water 1975 Cromwell, Hurdle, and Wedig 1986
An Assessment of the Representativeness of the SSI DA&A Study Panels
In this study, we used data derived from SSA administrative records to compare the composition of study panels, study samples, and the national population of former recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). We found that the panels represented the selected samples in the nine-study sites in terms of demographics, SSI program status, and medical eligibility. However, the selected samples varied in h…
The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities
Effects of Welfare Reform on Statistics for Young Women With Disabilities
This article uses the Current Population Survey (CPS) data to show that changes in family policy implemented in the 1990s led to a substantial increase in the number of young women reporting work limitations. These changes also affected measures of socioeconomic outcomes for young women reporting limitations. Hence, the demographic changes mask the effects of changes in family policy and changes in other environmental factors on those outcomes. T…
Federal Program Expenditures for Working-Age People With Disabilities
The authors estimated that the federal government spent $226 billion in 2002 on working-age people with disabilities, including both cash and in-kind benefits. These expenditures accounted for about 2.2% of the nation's gross domestic product and 11.3% of all federal outlays. States contributed an additional $50 billion under federal—state programs. The bulk of these expenditures provided income support and health care to working-age people with …
Income Security for Workers
The current mix of public and private programs to support workers after they experience disability onset provides benefits to millions of workers and former workers. Yet, despite the large and growing costs of these programs, the inflation-adjusted household incomes of workers with disabilities have been falling for more than two decades, both absolutely and, especially, relative to the incomes of those without disabilities. The aging of the baby…
Health Care When Workers Need it Most
This study analyzed survey data on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries during the six-year window surrounding SSDI entitlement to illustrate changes in characteristics, insurance status, and health care access. We found that SSDI beneficiaries were less likely to be insured than the general working-age population, even three years before SSDI entitlement, and their uninsurance rates remained high until the third year after S…
The Financial Repercussions of New Work-Limiting Health Conditions for Older Workers
This analysis used propensity score matching to construct a comparison sample that is observationally similar at baseline interview to older workers who later experience the onset of a medical condition that limits their ability to work. Using these matched onset and comparison samples, we studied trajectories in earnings and income around onset of the work limitation. Earnings two years after onset for the work-limitation group were 50% lower an…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Information about residents of institutional and noninstitutional group quarters (GQ), particularly those with disabilities, has been limited by gaps in survey data, and statistics based on data that exclude some or all GQ residents are biased as estimates of total population statistics. We used the 2006 and 2007 American Community Survey (ACS) to identify the distribution of working-age populations with and without disabilities by major residenc…
Predicting Receipt of Social Security Administration Disability Benefits Using Biomarkers and Other Physiological Measures
Physiological measures have moderate power to predict SSA disability benefit receipt
Firm-Level Early Intervention Incentives
The declining economic status of people with disabilities and the predicted 2016 depletion of the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund have generated considerable interest in proposals for reforming the DI program. Some proposals would hold firms partially responsible for a portion of the DI benefits paid to their recent employees. We analyze the implications of this approach for employers and workers in general, and specifically …
Federal and State Expenditures for Working-Age People With Disabilities in Fiscal Year 2014
Working-age people with disabilities are a large and growing segment of the U.S. population. Expenditures for a variety of federal and state safety-net programs to support these individuals—such as Social Security Disability Insurance, Supplemental Security Income, Medicare, Medicaid, and numerous others—are also growing. However, because expenditures are fragmented across so many programs, the full size and the extent of their growth have been o…
Comparison of Population-Representative and Volunteer Experiments
The Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) tested a $1 reduction in benefits per $2 earnings increase above the level at which Social Security Disability Insurance benefits drop from full to zero under current law. BOND included a rare and large “population-representative” experiment: It applied the rule to a nationwide, random sample of beneficiaries. BOND also included a parallel “volunteer” experiment: The same offset rules applied to a …
Embedding a Proof-of-Concept Test in an At-Scale National Policy Experiment
A randomized experiment that measures the impact of a social policy in a sample of the population reveals whether the policy will work on average with universal application. An experiment that includes only the subset of the population that volunteers for the intervention generates narrower “proof-of-concept” evidence of whether the policy can work for motivated individuals. Both forms of learning carry value, yet evaluations rarely combine the t…
Economics (13 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Social security (6 works) · Actuarial science (5 works)