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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Public Econ. 2021 Jun 8;199:104410. doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104410

Table A2.

Effects of Unemployment Rate at the Time of Filing and the Time of Onset, Respectively, on Initial Allowances.

Filing Onset
Coef. 873* 757*
SE (458) (449)
Mean DV 46,627 46,755
Pct. Change 1.9 1.6
Elasticity 0.14 0.12
R-squared 0.982 0.982
N 3,825 3,825

Notes:

***

Significant at the 1% level.

**

Significant at the 5% level.

*

Significant at the 10% level. In all models, N = 3825 state-month observations of the number of SSDI claims filed. Coef. refers to the coefficient on the number unemployed multiplied by the number of workers equivalent to one percent of the national labor force, and thus indicates the number of additional applications of a given outcome type induced by a one-point increase in the unemployment rate. Mean DV, the mean of each dependent variable, gives the average monthly claims of a given outcome type. Percent change is the Coef./Mean DV, or the percent change in the outcome.