Early Interventions and Disability Insurance

Experience from a Field Experiment

Bibliographic Data

ID9708648
AuthorsPer Engström (0000-0003-2458-0276, Uppsala University, UCLS, UCFS and IFAU), Pathric Hägglund (The Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate (ISF) and the Swedish Institute for Social Research), Per Johansson (0000-0001-6140-9123, Uppsala University, UCLS, IFAU, ISF, and IZA)
Year2017
Volume127
Issue600
Pages363-392
Publication date2017-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/ecoj.12310
OpenAlexW2109021417
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

We estimate the effects of early assessments of an individual’s need for vocational rehabilitation in the Swedish sickness insurance system using a field experiment. One of the interventions increases the flow to disability benefits by 20%. The effect is larger for unemployed individuals, who also are covered by the sickness insurance scheme. This result is in line with a theoretical model with moral hazard and asymmetric information in which individuals with low work incentives communicate worse health in response to the assessment for rehabilitation which then increases the hazard to disability benefits

Actuarial science · Business · Demographic economics · Disability insurance · Economics · Hazard · Health benefits · Incentive · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Moral hazard · Physical therapy · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Sick leave · Social security · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Psychology · Rehabilitation

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