Invisible Wounds: Health and Well-Being Impacts of Mental Disorder Disability Compensation on Veterans

We thank Lisa Brenner, David Card, David Chan, Janet Currie, Manasi Deshpande, Mark Duggan, Liran Einav, Shari Eli, Amy Finkelstein, Kyle Greenberg, Audrey Guo, Sarah Miller, Timothy Moore, Ashley O’Donoghue, Stacey Pollack, Liam Rose, Heather Royer, Frank Schilbach, Hannes Schwandt, George Sheldon, Paul Silver, Jodie Trafton, Todd Wagner, VAGAO Health Outcomes Study group, and seminar participants at ASHEcon, Brock University, Canadian Health Economists Study Group, Carleton University, Electronic Health Economics Colloquium, European Economic Association, Indiana University, National Tax Association Conference, NBER Summer Institute (Aging, Public), Simon Fraser University, Singapore Management University, Southern Economics Association Conference, University of California Santa Barbara, University of South Carolina, and University of Toronto for helpful comments. We are especially thankful to Paul Shute, Wanmei Ou, Babatunde Oguntade, John McCarthy, Rani Hoff, Wes Kasprow, and the VA Office of Performance Analysis and Integrity and VA Debt Management Center for providing data access. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veterans Health Administration, or the Veterans Benefits Administration. The work in this paper is part of internal VHA quality improvement and deemed non-research by the Stanford IRB. The work in this paper is part of internal VHA quality improvement and deemed non-research by the Stanford IRB. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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