Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) play an important role in the Social Security Administration (SSA) as they hear appeals from individuals who have been denied Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. As a result, the decisions of these judges have important effects on both individual welfare and government finances, especially given that the SSDI trust fund is expected to go bankrupt within the next few years. This paper examines how disability dispositions, decisions, and award rates by ALJs in the SSA vary according to factors such as gender, tenure with the SSA, age, general experience in the legal profession, and salary. The data, which span the years 2005-2011, are obtained from the SSA’s Office of Disability and Adjudicat...
Article III courts annually review thousands of decisions rendered by Social Security Administrative...
This paper presents an audit of the multistage application and appeal process that the U.S. Social ...
Judicial decision-making is an important part of the law-making process. The positive research of ju...
Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) play an important role in the Social Security Administration (SSA) ...
This study of federal court decisionmaking asks whether characteristics of a jurist including age, r...
Applicants for Social Security Disability benefits whose applications have twice been rejected can a...
The Social Security Advisory Board, the Congressional Budget Office, and independent researchers at ...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Historically, ...
A person who has sought and failed to obtain disability benefits from the Social Security Administra...
With over three million disability claims annually filed with the U.S. Social Security Administratio...
This paper presents an "audit" of the multistage application and appeal process that the U.S. Social...
Recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DA&A) benefits had t...
This Article for the special issue on the Administrative Conference of the United States ( ACUS ) fo...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.This report for the Federal Courts Study Commit...
This paper presents an “audit ” of the multistage application and appeal process that the U.S. Socia...
Article III courts annually review thousands of decisions rendered by Social Security Administrative...
This paper presents an audit of the multistage application and appeal process that the U.S. Social ...
Judicial decision-making is an important part of the law-making process. The positive research of ju...
Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) play an important role in the Social Security Administration (SSA) ...
This study of federal court decisionmaking asks whether characteristics of a jurist including age, r...
Applicants for Social Security Disability benefits whose applications have twice been rejected can a...
The Social Security Advisory Board, the Congressional Budget Office, and independent researchers at ...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Historically, ...
A person who has sought and failed to obtain disability benefits from the Social Security Administra...
With over three million disability claims annually filed with the U.S. Social Security Administratio...
This paper presents an "audit" of the multistage application and appeal process that the U.S. Social...
Recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DA&A) benefits had t...
This Article for the special issue on the Administrative Conference of the United States ( ACUS ) fo...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.This report for the Federal Courts Study Commit...
This paper presents an “audit ” of the multistage application and appeal process that the U.S. Socia...
Article III courts annually review thousands of decisions rendered by Social Security Administrative...
This paper presents an audit of the multistage application and appeal process that the U.S. Social ...
Judicial decision-making is an important part of the law-making process. The positive research of ju...