Sofia Cheidvasser

Overview

Sofia Cheidvasser is an economist who co-authored the Benítez-Silva, Buchinsky, Chan, Cheidvasser, and Rust studies of Social Security disability application behavior and self-reported disability. Her name appears as "Sheidvasser" in the 1999 Labour Economics paper and as "Cheidvasser" in the 2004 Journal of Applied Econometrics paper.

Key Contributions / Features

• Co-author of Benítez-Silva et al. (1999), the empirical decomposition of the DI application–appeal–award "game tree" and the HLIMPW sufficient-statistic finding.
• Co-author of Benítez-Silva et al. (2004), the test of the Rational Unbiased Reporting (RUR) hypothesis for self-reported disability.

Related

• Hugo Benítez-Silva
• Moshe Buchinsky
• Hiu Man Chan
• John Rust
• Conditional DI Applicants

Sources

• Benítez-Silva et al 1999 — An Empirical Analysis of the Social Security Disability Application, Appeal, and Award Process
• Benítez-Silva et al 2004 — How Large Is the Bias in Self-Reported Disability