Why are the disability laws diff rent for men and women?

Question

A friend of mine was disabled becouse of a sleeping disorder he, his wife and children all got a check and maidacaid. When I was disabled I had no husband but I had 4 boys to raise.I got medacaid untill the boys truned 18 even though my health has gotten so bad my dr. gave the man I am now married to a latter saying he can not work even a part time job. How becouse of me he can't work so we are losing everthing we would be ok if I had a way to pay for my meds and oyher bills . Anyway this is way I wonted to know.

Answer 1

A large expansion in the number of individuals collecting disability insurance benefits has been observed in many industrialized countries. This growth, especially in the United States, has led some researchers to examine the causes of these increases. Most of this research has focused on the disincentive effects of disability benefits on labor supply. (1) By comparison, relatively little research has examined other features of disability policy such as the criteria used to determine the eligibility for benefits, which can be summarized in the denial rates for applicants. Changes in these criteria can also affect an individual's application behavior and labor supply decisions. For example, Gruber and Kubik (1997) examined the effect of rejection rates from the US Disability Insurance (DI) program on the labor force participation of older men and found that a 10 percent rise in denial rates was associated with a statistically significant 2.8 percent decline in labor force nonparticipation, among men aged 45-64. More recently, Campolieti (2003) examined the effect of the 1989 changes in the Canada Pension Plan disability program's eligibility criteria, which made the screening of applications less stringent, on the labor force participation of older men. Using a difference-in-difference estimator, with standard errors that properly accounted for the clustering in the data, and data from 1987 to 1991, Campolieti found that these changes in eligibility criteria were associated with a 1.5 percentage point increase in nonparticipation.