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Title: Skills, Standards, and Disabilities: How Youth with Learning Disabilities Fare in High School and Beyond
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McGee, Andrew Dunstan |
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Skills, Standards, and Disabilities: How Youth with Learning Disabilities Fare in High School and Beyond Working Paper, Department of Economics, Ohio State University, January 2010. Also: http://web.econ.ohio-state.edu/~amcgee/LDhsgradver7_JAN10.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Department of Economics, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Disability; GED/General Educational Diploma/General Equivalency Degree/General Educational Development; Geographical Variation; High School Completion/Graduates; High School Diploma; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pearlin Mastery Scale; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Unemployment Rate, Regional Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines the effects of having a learning disability on high school graduation and other post-secondary outcomes. Controlling for skills, personal and family characteristics, school resources and policies, and other factors, I find that youth with learning disabilities are more likely to graduate from high school than their observationally equivalent peers. To examine whether this success is the result of the additional attention and resources devoted to youth with learning disabilities or the lower standards to which they may be held, I study how these youth fare after high school. While I find evidence consistent with youth with learning disabilities acquiring additional skills as a result of the attention and resources devoted to them, my findings strongly suggest that they benefit from being held to lower standard standards in high school. |
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McGee, Andrew Dunstan. "Skills, Standards, and Disabilities: How Youth with Learning Disabilities Fare in High School and Beyond." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Ohio State University, January 2010. |