Expanding Employment Discrimination Protections for Individuals with Disabilities: Evidence from California
研究加州2001年通过的Prudence Kay Poppink法案，该法案降低残疾人认定门槛，扩大就业歧视保护范围，发现法案显著提高了残疾人的就业率，效果至少持续六年。
Effective 2001, California passed the Prudence Kay Poppink Act, which broadened California’s disability employment discrimination law to cover individuals with less-severe disabilities by lowering the burden of proof to establish a disability. Using both difference-in-differences and difference-in-difference-in-differences regression analyses and data from the Current Population Survey, the author estimates how this act affected the labor market outcomes for individuals with disabilities. The results suggest that the act significantly increased employment for individuals with disabilities, with the effect persisting at least partially up to six years later.