%0 Report
        %A Furtado, Delia
%A Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos
        %T Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from US Census Data
        %D 2012
        %8 2012 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6649
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6649
        %X 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.
        %K supplementary security income
%K social security disability insurance
%K networks
%K immigrants