Recent Research from Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Highlight Findings in Politics and Government (Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences): Politics and Government

2025 SEP 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics, Law & Government Daily -- Current study results on Politics and Government have been published. According to news reporting originating from Chicago, Illinois, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “We show the extent of screening errors made in disability insurance awards using matched survey-administrative data. False rejections are widespread, with large gender differences.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Work-disabled women are 12.8 percentage points more likely to be rejected than work-disabled men, controlling for health conditions, occupation, and demographics. Gender differences arise because women are assessed with more residual work capacity. We model the Social Security Administration (SSA) decision-making process and estimate that gender differences in screening errors originate from lower costs to the SSA from incorrectly rejecting women.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Noise in self-reported work limitation leads to overstating screening errors, but the gender difference remains.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences. Journal of Political Economy, 2025. Journal of Political Economy can be contacted at: Univ Chicago Press, 1427 E 60TH St, Chicago, IL 60637-2954, USA. (University of Chicago Press - press.uchicago.edu; Journal of Political Economy - /ucp/journals/journal/jpe.html)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Hamish Low, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60604, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1086/736207. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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