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David Stapleton
Senior Fellow
Senior fellow David Stapleton directs Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy. He is also the area leader for the firm's studies of Social Security Administration (SSA) programs. Since 1991, his research has focused on the impacts of public policy on the employment and income of people with disabilities.
Stapleton, who joined Mathematica in 2007, is a principal investigator for the HHS Center of Excellence for Comparative Effectiveness Research on Disability Services, Coordinated Care and Integration; SSA's Benefit Offset National Demonstration; SSA's Ticket to Work Evaluation; and the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center Disability Statistics and Demographics.
Stapleton publishes widely and has edited three books on disability issues, Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications (with Kalman Rupp), The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities: A Policy Puzzle (with Richard Burkhauser), and Counting Working-Age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement (with Andrew Houtenville, Richard Burkhauser, and Robert Weathers). He was formerly director of Cornell University’s Institute for Policy Research, senior vice president at the Lewin Group, and an associate professor at both Dartmouth College and the University of Maryland, College Park. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Impacts of public policy on the employment and income of people with disabilities
- Administrative and survey data on working-age people with disabilities
- Evaluation of Ticket to Work
- Evaluation of the Benefit Offset National Demonstration
- Center of Excellence in Research on Disability Services, Care Coordination and Integration
- Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics
- Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Program Committee
- "How Many SSDI Beneficiaries Leave the Rolls for Work? More Than You Might Think." Disability Policy Research Brief #10-01 (April 2010)
- "Will Health Care Reform Increase the Employment of People with Disabilities?" Disability Policy Research Brief #09-04 (November 2009)
- "Doubling Down: Reforming Retirement and Disability Policy at the Same Time." Pathways (fall 2009)
- "Is It Time to Establish a National Disability Data System?" (October 2009)
- "Health Insurance and Health Care Access Before and After SSDI Entry" (May 2009)