Childhood disability is a major health shock that affects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on … identify the causal effect of childhood disability we use an event study approach, where we control for a rich set of pre … with a disability has strong negative impact on mothers’ earnings. The effect is persistent and the wage penalty appears to …

monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-level difference-in-difference results show … the employment effects occur through the relabeling of existing workers as workers with disabilities, and the remainder … through new hires. There are no negative effects found for the firms or other workers. We also conducted an experiment in …

We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … status) has gone through a significant transformation since 2013 with the gradual replacement of the disability living …