Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/280851 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers No. 23-7
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
Abstract: 
We document the characteristics of children and young adults identified in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics as having a learning disability and study whether legislative changes in diagnosis criteria have had a noticeable effect determining who receives a diagnosis. We further document that children and young adults identified as a having a learning disability experience less desirable outcomes early in life, including trouble with the police, drug use, violent behavior, incarceration, self-reported low levels of well-being, lower educational attainment, and less favorable labor market outcomes. We also find that the mothers of children diagnosed with learning disabilities are less likely than other mothers to participate in the labor market.
Subjects: 
learning disabilities
young adult outcomes
labor market outcomes
JEL: 
J24
I24
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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