Document Type
Article
Date
11-2003
Keywords
tbd
Disciplines
Economics
Description/Abstract
This paper develops dynamic structural models - an option value model and a dynamic programming model - of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application timing decision. We estimate the time to application from the point at which a health condition first begins to affect the kind or amount of work that a currently employed person can do. We use Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and restricted access Social Security earnings data for estimation. Based on tests of both in-sample and out-of-sample predictive accuracy, our option value model performs better than both our dynamic programming model and our reduced form hazard model.
Recommended Citation
Burkhauser, Rickard V.; Butler, J. S.; and Gumus, Gulcin, "Option Value and Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing" (2003). Economics - All Scholarship. 155.
https://surface.syr.edu/ecn/155
Source
Harvested from ssrn.com
Additional Information
This manuscript is from the Social Science Research Network, for more information see http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=475024#219907