alternative tack to identify the impact of benefits on duration by using the variability
of benefits across workers and find an elasticity near the top of the range of estimates,
while Worrall and Butler (1985), Butler and Worrall (1985), and Galizzi and Boden
(2003) who also use the variability of benefits across workers, find elasticities closer to
Meyer et al.
The evidence on differences in duration/benefit elasticity by injury type is equally
conflicting. Curington (1994) finds no statistically significant impact of benefits on
claims duration for minor impairments, but a significant and sizable impact ...
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