We document the characteristics of children and young adults identified in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics as having a learning disability and study whether legislative changes in diagnosis criteria have had a noticeable effect determining who receives a diagnosis. We further document that...

Disability benefits are costly and tend to reduce labor supply. While spending can be contained by careful targeting, correcting past flaws in eligibility rules or assessment procedures may entail welfare costs. We study a major reform in Hungary that reassessed the health and working capacity...

While the literature on the Americans with Disabilities Act’s (A.D.A.) impact on economic outcomes for disabled Americans has focused by and large on employment and wages, the literature on disabled Americans’ accumulation of human capital because of the ADA’s protections has been largely...

There are over 20 million adult women with disabilities in the noninstitutionalized population in the United States. However, the career options and trajectories of women with disabilities are under-researched. Disabled women have the lowest employment rate among disabled and non-disabled men...

Workplace accommodations may enable Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) beneficiaries and other workers with disabilities to maintain or return to work, but the extent to which accommodations keep those workers employed is unknown because of limited data availability. In this article, the...

The legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic persists. There exists a continuing need for long-term treatment and disability. While state benefit systems such as workers’ compensation have made an admirable attempt in many jurisdictions to provide benefits, a significant gap and non-uniform delivery of...

The raw gap between the employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people in the UK was 33 percentage points in 2019. We decompose this Disability Employment Gap (DEG) into characteristics and structural components using Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition methods, addressing two well-known...

Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities Achieving rights as stipulated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires quality, timely and policy-relevant disability data. This Report first reviews...

The 2023 report zooms in and produces disability disaggregated indicators at the regional and district levels, which offers new opportunities for monitoring the situation of persons with disabilities locally