Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161370 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10747
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly disadvantaged group whose labor market performances have not been well studied or documented. Using a nonparametric approach, we uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns to education for these workers, which is drastically masked by the conventional parametric methods. Based on these estimates, we construct the Sharpe ratio of human capital investment (taking into account its substantial risk), and our results corroborate on the claimed importance of human capital in improving these workers' wages. Our stochastic dominance tests, however, show that the returns to education for workers with disabilities, as a group, may have been affected more adversely in the most recent recession, relative to their non-disabled counterparts.
Subjects: 
disability
education
risk
heterogeneity
JEL: 
C14
I12
I26
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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