Overview
David Pattison is an economist at SSA's Office of Economic Analysis and Comparative Studies, within the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics (ORES), Office of Retirement and Disability Policy, Social Security Administration. His work focuses on quantitative decompositions of Social Security program trends.
Key Contributions
- DI entitlement growth decomposition (Pattison and Waldron 2013): used a Törnqvist chained-index technique to decompose 36 years of growth in new disabled-worker entitlements into population growth, rising female insured rate, and residual incidence; found 90% of growth attributable to demographic factors after age/sex adjustment.
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