Modeling Early Retirement of Deaf Workers via SSDI

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份申请，旨在创建一个限制访问的公共使用数据集，并使用它来研究经济激励对退出劳动力并进入SSDI计划的决定的影响，这些人具有明确定义的健康状况，符合SSDI的医疗清单标准，因此只要他们不工作，就可以有效地保证被纳入SSDI名单。具体目标我们将为我们匹配的NTID-SSA数据集开发一个清洁的数据摘录、数据字典和数据手册，供我们和研究界使用。在我们的数据集中，所有5069名国家聋人技术学院（NTID）毕业生在1972-2002年间获得学位，他们的听力障碍非常严重，符合SSA残疾医疗清单。NTID数据已经与从SSA管理记录中提取的数据相匹配，这些记录包含了他们完整的收入和项目历史。我们已经完成了与NTID和SSA的合同，允许我们创建和使用数据集。这些数据将保存在SSA，但将提供给研究人员社区。我们将估计SSDI退休决策的简化形式风险模型。分析将包括描述性统计、生命表估计和危害模型估计。一般简化形式的危险模型规范将类似于我们在以前的研究中使用的那些。（伯克豪泽、巴特勒、金和威瑟斯，1999；威瑟斯，1999；伯克豪泽、巴特勒和威瑟斯，2002）我们将重点讨论经济激励措施对落实可持续发展援助计划时机的重要性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a application to create a restricted access public use data set and use it to study the influence of economic incentives on the decision to exit the labor force and enter the SSDI program for persons with well defined health conditions that meet the medical listings criteria for SSDI and hence are effectively assured of acceptance onto the SSDI rolls as long as they do not work. Specific Aim 1. We will develop a cleaned data extract, a data dictionary and data manual for our matched NTID-SSA dataset, for our use and the use of the research community. All 5,069 National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) graduates in our dataset earned their degree between 1972-2002 and have hearing impairments that are so severe that they meet the SSA disability medical listings. The NTID data have been matched to data extracts from SSA administrative records that contain their complete earnings and program histories. We have already completed a contract with NTID and SSA that allows us to create and use the data set. The data will be housed at SSA but will be available to the researcher community Specific Aim 2. We will estimate reduced-form hazard models of the SSDI retirement decision. The analysis will include descriptive statistics, life table estimates, and hazard model estimates. The genera reduced form hazard model specification will be similar to those that we have used in our previous research. (Burkhauser, Butler, Kim and Weathers, 1999; Weathers, 1999; and Burkhauser, Butler and Weathers, 2002.) We will focus on the importance of economic incentives on the timing of movements onto the SSDI program.