Designing Optimal Disability Insurance

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  • 628
Date Created
  • 2003-01
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  • In this paper we describe how to optimally design a disability insurance system. The key friction in the model is imperfectly observable disability. We solve a dynamic mechanism design problem and provide a theoretical and numerical characterization of the social optimum. We then propose a simple tax system that implements an optimal allocation as a competitive equilibrium. The tax system that we propose includes only taxes and transfers that are similar to those already present in the U.S. tax code: a savings tax and an asset-tested transfer program. Using a numerical simulation, we compare our optimal disability system to the current disability system. Our results suggest a significant welfare gain from switching to an optimal system.

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  • Published as "Designing Optimal Disability Insurance: A Case for Asset Testing" in Journal of Political Economy (Vol. 114, Iss. 2, April 2006, pp. 257-279), https://doi.org/10.1086/500549.

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  • Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department
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  • Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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