Vocational Rehabilitation
My Vocational Rehabilitation Interests
A Preliminary Analysis of VA-DRS 1988 Applicant Cohort with Cognitive Impairments, with David Dean, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt.
State Vocational Rehabilitation Programs and Federal Disability Insurance: An Analysis of Virginia's Vocational Rehabilitation Program, with David Dean, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt,IZA Journal of Labor Policy, July 2104.
The Effects of Vocational Rehabilitation for People with Cognitive Impairments, with David Dean, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, International Economic Review, May 2015, 56(2): 399-426.
Appendices for "The Effects of Vocational Rehabilitation of People with Cognitive Impairments", with David Dean, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt.
"The Effects of Vocational Rehabilitation Services for People with Mental Illness," with David Dean, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2017, 52(3): 826-858.
"Dedication to David Dean," with Joe Ashley, John Pepper, Kirsten Rowe, and Robert Schmidt, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, July 2104.
"State Differences in the Vocational Rehabilitation Experiences of Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities," with Todd Honeycutt, Allison Thompkins, and Maura Bardos, Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, January 2015, with news story.
A Preliminary Analysis of VA-DRS 2000-2007 Applicant Cohorts with Autism, with David Dean, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt.
"The Effects of Youth Transition Programs on Labor Market Outcomes," with David Dean, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, Economics of Education Review, February 2019, 68(C): 68-88. , with news story 1.
"Youth with Disabilities at the Crossroads: The Intersection of Vocational Rehabilitation and Disability Benefits for Youth with Disabilities," with Todd Honeycutt, Allison Thompkins, and Maura Bardos, Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, April 2017, 60(3): http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0034355215621897 cited in US Senate testimony and news story; Editor's Choice Award of the National Rehabilitation Association.
"Public Provision of Postsecondary Education for Transition-Age Youth with Serious Mental Health Conditions," with Todd Honeycutt, Priyanka Anand, and Max Rubinstein, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, February 9, 2017: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/prj0000237.
"The Effects of Vocational Rehabilitation Services for People with Physical Impairments," with David Dean, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, Journal of Human Capital, Spring 2018, 12(1): 1-37.
"Interactions of Public Paratransit and Vocational Rehabilitation," with Chris Clapp and Dan Yu.
"Data Issues in Developing Valid ROI/ROR Estimates," with Chris Clapp, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, Journal of Rehabilitation Administration, November 2019, 40(1): 35-46.
"Conceptual Issues in Developing Return on Investment Estimates of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs," with Chris Clapp, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, Journal of Rehabilitation Administration, November 2019, 40(1): 23-34.
"Applications of the VR-ROI project: ROI Estimates for Virginia and Maryland," with Chris Clapp, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, Journal of Rehabilitation Administration, November 2019, 40(1): 57-72.
"An Overview of the VR-ROI Project and its Approach to Estimating ROI," with Kirsten Rowe, Joseph Ashley, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, Journal of Rehabilitation Administration, November 2019, 40(1): 47-56.
All JRA papers are available here and nice pitch from CSAVR here.
"Overview of Vocational Rehabilitation Data for People with Visual Impairments: Demographics, Services, and Long-Run Labor Market Trends," with Chris Clapp, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, February 2020, 114(1): https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482X20901380.
"The Effect of Ruralness on Vocational Rehabilitation Applications," with Catherine Ipsen, Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, June 2020, 53(1): 89-104.
"Vocational Rehabilitation Service Receipt, Service Expenditures, and Ruralness," with Catherine Ipsen and Kamini Jain, Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, September 2023, 1: 251-261.
Full set of estimates for "Vocational Rehabilitation Service Receipt, Service Expenditures, and Ruralness," with Catherine Ipsen and Kamini Jain.
"Interactions of Public Paratransit and Vocational Rehabilitation," with Chris Clapp and Dan Yu, under review.
"Measurement of Learning Disabilities and Intellectual Disabilities: Racial Patterns and Labor Market Biases in RSA-911 Data," with John Pepper and Robert Schmidt (forthcoming in the Journal of Human Capital).
Complete Estimation Results for "Measurement of Learning Disabilities and Intellectual Disabilities: Racial Patterns and Labor Market Biases in RSA-911 Data,” 2023.
"Problems in Using Measures of Taxpayer Return on Investment to Evaluate Work Force Programs," with John Pepper and Robert Schmidt, under review.
Website for work by our team on vocational rehabilitation
Governor's Announcement on Our Grant and news story 1, news story 2, news story 3, and news story 4 about it.
"The Effects of Vocational Rehabilitation for People who are Blind or Vision-Impaired," with Chris Clapp, John Pepper, and Robert Schmidt, under review.
Graduate Students from Stony Brook University
Shafira Widjaja, "Selection into Job Training Programs: Evidence from Indonesia."