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Do Federal Disability Insurance Participants Exaggerate Their Health Problems? A Study Using Anchoring Vignettes

In: Essays in Honor of Subal Kumbhakar

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  • Kajal Lahiri
  • Paul Noroski

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The authors examine whether or not applicants and recipients of federal disability insurance (DI) inflate their self-assessed health (SAH) problems relative to others. To do this, the authors employ a technique which uses anchoring vignettes. This approach allows them to examine how various cohorts of the population interpret survey questions associated with subjective self-assessments of health. The results of the analysis suggest that DI participantsdoinflate the severity of a given health problem, but by a small but significant degree. This tendency to exaggerate the severity of disability problems is much more apparent among those with more education (especially those with a college degree). In contrast, racial minorities tend to underestimate severity ratings for a given disability vignette when compared to their white peers.

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  • Kajal Lahiri & Paul Noroski, 2024. "Do Federal Disability Insurance Participants Exaggerate Their Health Problems? A Study Using Anchoring Vignettes," Advances in Econometrics, in: Essays in Honor of Subal Kumbhakar, volume 46, pages 25-44, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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    DOI: 10.1108/S0731-905320240000046003
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    Keywords

    Disability insurance; self-assessed health; anchoring vignettes; CHOPIT model; differential item functioning; Health and Retirement Study; C25; C83; I12; I19;
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    JEL classification:

    • C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
    • C83 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other

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