JSIT22-03: Employment Among Adolescent Children of SSDI Recipients Researchers
Abstract
I explore the association between parental work-limiting disabilities (WLD) and Social Security
Disability Insurance (SSDI) receipt and the labor supply of their adolescent children. Using the
2014-2021 waves of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, I estimate that having a
parent who receives SSDI benefits is associated with a 22 percent reduction in the odds that the
child worked during the school months of the previous calendar year relative to teens whose parents
did not receive benefits. Along the intensive margin, parental SSDI receipt is correlated with a more
than 20 percent reduction in total hours worked over the previous year. These effects are almost
entirely driven by teenage boys, suggesting a gendered response to parental disability and SSDI
benefit receipt.
Subject
I38
J13
J22
labor supply
disability
SSDI
teenagers
gender
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/84678Type
Working Paper
Description
Households with parental work-limiting disability (WLD) have lower income that is often below the poverty line even when transfer income is considered. Adolescents in these households face competing uses of their time between working to contribute to family financial resources, home production, and their own personal development. Parental Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) benefit receipt may further alter the decisions by providing cash assistance to the parents and children in the household, alleviating the need for the child to work. This project examines the associations between parental WLD and SSDI receipt and teenage labor supply.
Citation
Vaughn, Cody. 2022. "Employment Among Adolescent Children of SSDI Recipients Researchers." FY2022 Research Papers: JSIT Awards." Retirement & Disability Research Center. https://cfsrdrc.wisc.edu/project/jsit22-03.