Gettens, JohnHenry, Alexis D.2022-08-232022-08-232018-05-082018-08-15<p>Gettens J, Lei PP, Henry AD. ACCOUNTING FOR GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY PROGRAM PARTICIPATION. Social Security Bulletin. 2018 May 8;78(2):29-47. <a href="https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v78n2/v78n2p29.html" target="_blank">Link to article on publisher's site</a></p>https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/26974There is wide geographic variation in Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplementary Security Income participation across the United States. Some policymakers and members of the public may assume that interregional administrative inconsistencies are a major reason for the geographic variation. To test this assumption, and to reveal other potential explanations for the variation, we decompose the total variation into components by examining regional differences in disability prevalence and in program participation among persons with disabilities as well as the correlation between those two factors. We further decompose the variation in participation among persons with disabilities into socioeconomic components. Our findings strongly suggest that geographic variation in program participation is mainly an indication of geographic variation in disability prevalence and socioeconomic characteristics and that inconsistency in program administration is not a major reason for the variation.en-USContents of this publication are not copyrighted; any items may be reprinted, but citation of the Social Security Bulletin as the source is requested.Social Security Disability InsuranceSupplementary Security Incomegeographic variationregional variationHealth EconomicsHealth Law and PolicyHealth PolicyHealth Services AdministrationHealth Services ResearchInsuranceJournal Articlehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1191&amp;context=commed_pubs&amp;unstamped=1https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/commed_pubs/20312661227commed_pubs/203