JSIT22-03: Employment Among Adolescent Children of SSDI Recipients

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.