Childhood‐onset disabilities and lifetime earnings growth: A longitudinal analysis
利用加拿大残疾调查与30多年税务记录的新数据，发现儿童期发病的残疾者在35-49岁期间收入增长极少，而无残疾者收入持续增长至50岁左右，差异在男性大学毕业生中最大。
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.