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Published in final edited form as: J Labor Econ. 2015 Dec 16;34(Suppl):S445–S475. doi: 10.1086/683140

Table 3.

Panel Data Analysis of Award Rates for New Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Applications at State-by-Month Level

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Final UI exhaustions (index: multiple of 2005–7 average)	.001 (.001)	.000 (.001)	.001 (.001)	.000 (.001)
Exhaustions index (average, previous 3 months)				.008 (.003)
Exhaustions index (average, next 3 months)				−.000 (.002)
𝟙(No exhaustions this month)					.001 (.002)
Unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted)	−.009 (.004)		−.009 (.004)	−.008 (.004)	−.009 (.004)
ln(initial UI claims)			.021 (.007)
State FE	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Month FE	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cubic UE rate control		Yes
R²	.883	.884	.884	.884	.882

Note.—N= 1,836. Dependent variable is the fraction of SSDI applications that was awarded SSDI benefits, measured at the state-by-month level verifed from micro data. Panel ranges from January 2008 to December 2010. UI = Unemployment Insurance; FE = fixed effects; UE = unemployment. Standard errors, clustered at the state level, are in parentheses.