@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6649,
            	author={Furtado, Delia and Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos},
            	title={Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from US Census Data},
            	year={2012},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={6649},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6649},
	abstract={This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of residence fixed effects, immigrants residing amidst a large number of co-ethnics are more likely to receive disability payments when their ethnic groups have higher take-up rates. Although this pattern can be partially explained by cross-group differences in satisfying the work history or income and asset requirements of the disability programs, we also find that social norms and, to a lesser extent, information sharing play important roles.},
	keywords={supplementary security income;social security disability insurance;networks;immigrants},
            }