Research Associate I
Income and Benefits Policy Center
Stephan Lindner is a Research Associate in the Income and Benefits Policy Center of the The Urban Institute. His research addresses and evaluates social insurance and welfare programs, especially Social Security Disability Insurance, Supplement Security Income, and Unemployment Insurance, with a particular focus on how economic circumstances, income sources, and program characteristics influence program participation for displaced and disabled workers. His other research includes underlying causes of displacement, in particular technological change.
Dr. Lindner earned his Diploma in Economics from the Universitaet zu Koeln (where he minored in Sociology and Philosophy) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.
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The Impact of Temporary Assistance Programs on Disability Rolls and Re-Employment (Research Report)Unemployed workers participate in various temporary assistance programs. They are also more likely to apply for Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), growing programs with large costs. Temporary benefits can both increase and decrease probabilities of re-employment and application for DI/SSI. When controlling for selection bias, we find evidence that increased access to unemployment benefits reduces applications for DI, while increased access to food benefits increases applications for SSI. These results suggest that applications for DI/SSI are sensitive to participation in temporary assistance programs, and that increased access to unemployment is less costly than it may appear.
| Posted to Web: February 15, 2012 | Publication Date: January 31, 2012 |
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