Physical Disabilities and Post-Secondary Educational Outcomes

Robert A. Shakotko and Michael Grossman

No 609, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper is an empirical investigation of the effect of poor early life-cycle health on post-secondary educational choices and outcomes. We use panel data for a sample of 10,430 individuals who were high school seniors in the spring of 1972, and who were re-surveyed in October of each year through 1976. Various health information was collected in the base year of the survey, and we use these base year reports as measures of health which are predetermined with respect to educational behavior in the subsequent five years. We examine individuals' choices of post-secondary activities (which include different types of post-secondary education and no post-secondary education), and the rate at which individuals leave educational activities, in an effort to determine if the behavior of disabled individuals differs from healthy individuals, and if these differences could be attributable to health problems.

Date: 1980-12
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Published as Shakotko, Robert A. and Grossman, Michael "Physical Disabilities and Post-Secondary Education;al Choices." Economic Aspects of Health, edited by Victor R. Fuchs, pp. 185-202. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Published as Physical Disabilities and Post-secondary Educational Choices , Robert A. Shakotko, Michael Grossman. in Economic Aspects of Health , Fuchs. 1982

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