The effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on economic well-being of men with disabilities.
This paper estimates the effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on the economic well-being of working-age (20-62) men with disabilities by fitting a fixed-effects model to the U.S. Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) panel data. This paper constructs a new and alternative measure of disability utilizing rich information on limitations to functional activities (FA), activities of daily living (ADL), and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). The new objective measure of disability identifies a larger group of people as being disabled than conventional self-reported measure. Probability of employment for disabled men fell 5.8% compared to nondisabled men significantly at the 5% level. Log-real-wages of men with disabilities fell 5.3% relative to men without disabilities significantly at the 10% level.
Moon
Sangho
S
Graduate School of Governance & Department of Public Administration, SungKyunKwan University, 53 Myongryun-Dong 3-Ga, Jongno-Gu, Seoul 110-745, Republic of Korea. smoon@skku.edu
Shin
Jaeun
J
D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012923:Social Class; D014481:United States