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Honeycutt, Todd C. Mann, David R. |
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Crime and Parenthood: Factors Affecting the Outcomes of Adolescents With and Without Disabilities Working Paper 37, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ, March 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Keyword(s): Crime; Disability; Educational Outcomes; Employment; Parenthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. BACKGROUND: Adolescents often engage in behaviors that can detrimentally affect outcomes for the rest of their lives. In addition to avoiding such behaviors, youth with disabilities face other challenges that complicate their transitions into adulthood. OBJECTIVE: In this analysis, we explore how two risk factors (criminal behavior and parenthood) in adolescence influenced the education and employment outcomes of young adults. We pay special attention to the interaction between disability status and these factors. METHOD: Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we produce summary statistics and estimate several regression models; examining respondent outcomes at age 24. RESULTS: Despite increased prevalence among youth with disabilities, parenthood and crime did not appear to affect education or employment outcomes any more than these factors affected the outcomes of youth without disabilities. CONCLUSION: Multiple risk factors are intertwined and are associated with poorer outcomes, which suggest the need for better identification issues and supports in secondary school. The issue of higher prevalence of dropping out of high school and having certain risk factors might reflect the lower cognitive ability of youth with mental limitations, but environmental factors could also be influential. |
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Honeycutt, Todd C. and David R. Mann. "Crime and Parenthood: Factors Affecting the Outcomes of Adolescents With and Without Disabilities." Working Paper 37, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ, March 2015. |
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James-Burdumy, Susanne N. |
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The Effect of Maternal Labor Force Participation on Child Development Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ, December 1999 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Keyword(s): Child Care; Child Development; Endogeneity; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Variables, Instrumental Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Whether and to what degree a mother's labor force participation affects a child's achievement is of concern to both policy makers and families. The first part of this dissertation examines the impact of maternal employment on child development. Coefficient estimates from models without fixed effects and without corrections for the endogeneity of maternal employment may be biased and inconsistent. This paper examines the link between maternal employment and child development through the use of an instrumental variables mother fixed effects model to correct for the endogeneity of maternal employment and the presence of unobserved individual characteristics. Generalized method of moments is used for estimation. Hausman test results indicate that fixed effects are needed for consistent estimates of the impact of hours of work on child scores. The fixed effects results show no effect of hours or weeks worked by the mother in years 1, 2, or 3 on child test scores. |
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James-Burdumy, Susanne N. "The Effect of Maternal Labor Force Participation on Child Development." Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ, December 1999. |
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Mann, David R. Honeycutt, Todd C. |
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Changes in Disability Status and Survey Attrition for Youth: A Longitudinal Analysis Mathematica Policy Research Final Report, Submitted to National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education, December 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Keyword(s): Attrition; Disability; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Nonresponse Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Disability status--experiencing a functional limitation caused by a health condition--is dynamic throughout the life cycle, even during adolescence and young adulthood. Changes in disability status early in the life cycle may have especially strong ties to future outcomes such as educational attainment and employment. We used data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to better understand these dynamics, examining how disability status evolves during adolescence and young adulthood and how changes in disability status are related to survey non-response and attrition. The dynamics of disability are evident in our data: the proportion of sample members who reported having a disability for any interview increased from about 12 percent during the initial interview (when sample members were 12 to 17 years old) to almost 25 percent 13 years later. Multivariate analysis revealed that women are more likely than men to report changes in health condition or disability status. Those with mild disabilities were relatively less likely than those without or with severe disabilities to experience changes in disability status. Somewhat surprisingly, a survival analysis of survey participation outcomes found limited correlation between health conditions, disability status, and either missing a survey interview for the first time or permanently leaving the survey sample. |
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Mann, David R. and Todd C. Honeycutt. "Changes in Disability Status and Survey Attrition for Youth: A Longitudinal Analysis." Mathematica Policy Research Final Report, Submitted to National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education, December 2014. |
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Mann, David R. Wittenburg, David C. |
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Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, April 2014. Also: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/~/media/publications/pdfs/disability/explaining_differentials_wp.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Keyword(s): Disability; Employment; Labor Force Participation; Wage Gap; Wages; Wages, Reservation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to estimate and decompose the employment and offered wages of young adults with and without disabilities. Those with functional limitations that are severe or mental have the lowest relative employment rates and wage offers. The employment rate gaps between the “no limitations” group and the “severe limitations” and “mental limitations” groups are 20.0 and 15.0 percentage points, respectively. These large gaps in employment provide quantitative evidence that many young adults with disabilities decide not to enter the labor force because they receive wage offers that are below their reservation wage. The wage offer differential between those without limitations and those with severe limitations or mental limitations are 10.9 and 52.1 percentage points, respectively. We attribute most of the employment rate gaps to observed factors, whereas most of the wage offer gaps are the result of unobserved factors. Removing the proportion of the wage offer gap attributable to unexplained differences increases the employment rate among those with mental functional limitations by 1.4 percent. |
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Mann, David R. and David C. Wittenburg. "Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities." Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, April 2014. |