The importance of prejudice against persons with disabilities
利用加拿大2006年参与和活动限制调查数据,结合医学和心理学研究中记录的针对不同残疾类型的偏见程度,发现偏见显著降低残疾人的收入,即使控制其他因素后依然成立。
Abstract Based on the Canadian 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS), we estimate the effect of prejudice on the earnings of persons with a disability. We extract external information from medical and psychology studies that record the degree of prejudice against specific disabilities and link those prejudice indices to our disability categories. We find that the earnings of persons with a disability are strongly affected by the degree of prejudice associated with their disability, after controlling for the wide range of other factors that can affect earnings.