Previous network with the current employer: percentages refer to the subsample of individuals that, at the time of the interview, declared they had a formal job position (through the ICS program if beneficiaries, otherwise if non beneficiaries).
In February, reacting to the rule while it was still a proposal, a bipartisan group of senators led by Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, introduced legislation that they said would prevent non-beneficiaries from being billed for power transmission projects.
The key informants include kebele administrators, elders, and PSNP beneficiary and non-beneficiary farmers.
Of course, these measures do not completely capture the extent to which non-beneficiary applicants have access to VR services.
The always-OOS sample includes 451,477 non-beneficiary applicants, the never-OOS sample includes 571,252, and the intermittently OOS sample includes 162,081.
The first monthly access measure is the percentage of all non-beneficiary applicants to an agency in the month that receive an IPE before closure.
There is also a countervailing hypothesis about the direction of the effect exogenous variation in service access on SSA program outcomes for at least some non-beneficiary applicants.
We hypothesize that limited access to VR services by non-beneficiary applicants increases the chance that they will apply and, in some cases receive, SSA disability benefits.
Of course, the results do not prove that greater access to VR services for non-beneficiary applicants would reduce SSA program application and allowance receipt.
This counterfactual assessment should help to calibrate the necessary investments and to adapt the functioning of a MPA but also to target adequate mitigation and compensation measures for the non-beneficiary households.
IPEat and WAITat are the two measures of VR service availability discussed previously, defined using information from all non-beneficiary VR applicants who applied to the same agency in the same month.
