Childhood‐onset disabilities and lifetime earnings growth: A longitudinal analysis

Sung‐Hee Jeon, Jungwee Park and Dafna Kohen

Health Economics, 2023, vol. 32, issue 8, 1749-1766

Abstract: This study offers insights into lifetime earnings growth differences between individuals with and without childhood‐onset disabilities (COD) defined as disabilities whose onset occurred before an individual's 16th birthday. We use a newly available database linking data from the 2017 Canadian Survey of Disability with individual income tax records covering a period of over 3 decades. We estimate the average earnings growth profiles of individuals with COD from the age when individuals generally enter the labor market to the age when most retire. The main finding of our study is that individuals with COD experience very little earnings growth when they are in their mid‐30 and 40s while the earnings of those without COD grow steadily until they reach their late 40s and early 50s. The largest earnings growth differences between individuals with and without COD are observed for male university graduates.

Date: 2023
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