Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects / Christine Jolls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jolls, Christine.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w10528.

NBER working paper series no. w10528

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2004.

Summary:

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) broadly prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment and other settings. Several empirical studies have suggested that employment levels of individuals with disabilities declined rather than increased after the ADA's passage. This paper provides a first look at whether lower disabled employment levels after the ADA might have resulted from increased participation in educational opportunities by individuals with disabilities as a rational response to the ADA's employment protections. The main empirical finding is that individuals with disabilities who were not employed in the years following legal innovation in the form of the ADA were more likely than their pre-ADA counterparts to give educational participation as their reason for not being employed. This preliminary evidence suggests the value of further study, with better education data, of the relationship between the ADA's enactment and disabled participation in educational opportunities.

Notes:

Print version record

May 2004.