This guide explores opportunities to advance equity in quantitative analysis, including by recognizing common biases (e.g., research and measurement bias) and discussing specific quantitative methods and tools to help quantitative analyses address equity.
Transition-age youth are one focus for requirements described in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014. This brief examines the extent to which Centers for Independent Living increased services to youth and young adults from all backgrounds in the four years after WIOA became law.
This is the executive summary of a report that presents estimates of the five-year impacts of the PROMISE programs on youth with disabilities who receive Supplemental Security Income and parent outcomes.
This report presents estimates of the five-year impacts of the PROMISE programs on youth with disabilities who receive Supplemental Security Income and parent outcomes.
This is the technical appendix of the report on estimated impacts and net benefits of six PROMISE programs five years after youth with disabilities enrolled in the evaluation. PROMISE programs are designed to assist youth with disabilities and their families access resources that can assist with the...
This guide explores intersectionality and why it is essential for advancing equity. It explores strategies for planning and conducting research, describes quantitative measures and methods, and provides key considerations for using qualitative data to better understand intersectionality.
This brief presents characteristics of nonworking out-of-school youth with a disability nationally and at the county level and focuses on both demographic as well as socioeconomic characteristics.
This brief describes services that centers for independent living (CILs) have provided to out-of-school youth with disabilities from minority backgrounds, and the extent to which CILs believe specific services are critical to successful independent living.
This brief shares information on the prevalence of out-of-school youth with disabilities among centers for independent living consumers, and the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of these youth consumers.
This article investigates whether states that expanded Medicaid coverage through the ACA in 2014—the first year expansion was possible and the year that most states opted to expand—experienced differential changes in employment rate of adults with disabilities relative to states that did not expand.
This disability policy brief examines the work-related benefit suspension experiences of recently employed Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries using data from the 2017 National Beneficiary Survey.
The Linking Learning to Careers (LLC) program offered high school students with disabilities an individualized and targeted approach to strategically plan for their futures. This report presents evidence on LLC’s impacts up to two years after students enrolled in the program.
Linking Learning to Careers offered services designed to improve the college and career readiness of high school students with disabilities by enhancing and customizing their education and employment services. This implementation report describes the experience implementing the program and presents findings...
Over the last several decades, the federal disability rolls grew substantially, though this growth has slowed more recently.
Kentucky’s state vocational rehabilitation agency participated in the Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) project, an intervention designed to increase the earnings of Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries. This article describes Kentucky’s implementation experience and program outcomes.
This brief presents an updated profile of work-oriented beneficiaries and compares them to other SSI and DI beneficiaries who are not interested in work.
This paper examines the prevalence of scheduling uncertainty and the degree of work hour volatility among young adults with disabilities from 2008 through 2018, using data from the Current Population Survey and the National Longitudinal Youth Survey.
This brief presents statistics on pre-employment transition services provided by vocational rehabilitation agencies in program year 2017.
This brief examined levels of functioning among working-age adults and summarizes findings about an increase in social and cognitive limitations in both the general population and among people with certain medical conditions.
Using data following newborns for 15 years, we find that poor neonatal health is associated with significant increases in child disability, child receipt of SSI and that mothers of these children reduce their labor supply, have higher rates of public benefit receipt and are less likely to live in married...
We find that the prevalence of child disability among urban families is high. Child disability is associated with reductions in maternal labor supply on both the intensive and extensive margins and increases in benefit receipt from SSI and other public assistance programs.
Using NHIS data we find an increase in prevalence in selected chronic conditions that are common among Social Security disability beneficiaries.
This report highlights the Pathways to Careers (Pathways) program, a customized employment service model that helps people with significant disabilities access competitive integrated employment.
This fact sheet highlights the Pathways to Careers (Pathways) program, a customized employment service model that helps people with significant disabilities access competitive integrated employment.
This study examines changes in the characteristics and employment-related experiences of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program participants from 2005 to 2015, focusing on beneficiaries with work-related goals and expectations.
Some individuals with disabilities have relatively better labor outcomes than others. If VR counselors can better understand what factors are correlated with positive outcomes, they could better identify what clients are at risk for poor outcomes and intervene early to improve chances for success.
This brief describes performance metrics that staff at state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies can use to assess their provision of pre-employment transition services.
This brief discusses ways to use a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency’s administrative data to measure the provision of pre-employment transition services.
This brief presents approaches to analyzing one source of administrative data—the RSA-911 Case Service Report—for the purpose of assessing the provision of pre-employment transition services.
This brief summarizes findings from recent Disability Research Consortium (DRC) studies on the child SSI program including reasons for the program’s growth and analyses of adult outcomes of former child SSI recipients. The results point to substantial geographic variation in many of these outcomes.
This report presents two examples of collaborations between state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies and local workforce development boards to deliver programs that provide work-based learning experiences (WBLEs) to students with disabilities.
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of a high-intensity care management program that the Rutgers University Center for State Health Policy (CSHP) implemented as an adaptation of a promising model developed by the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.
In this study, the authors examined the relationship between employment outcomes and features of the state and county physical, economic, and policy environment among a national sample of individuals with disabilities.
This brief shares the experiences of state vocational rehabilitation agencies implementing pre-employment transition services under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act through 2017.
This study is the first to exploit county variation for insights on the causes of child SSI caseloads. Health and economic variables explain a large share of the variation in receipt across counties. They explain 30 to 40% of the 2003 to 2008 caseload growth and about 25% of the 2008 to 2011 trend.
In this brief, we focus on the effects the proposed policy changes could have on individuals with disabilities and individuals with chronic conditions that could become disabling.
This article examines whether economic conditions affect the likelihood that jobless adults with disabilities apply for SSI payments.
This study uses a 2015 survey of applicants to state vocational rehabilitation agencies to explore receipt of workplace accommodations among individuals with disabilities. Receipt of accommodations is positively associated with continued employment.
This report presents findings from the Minnesota SGA Project demonstration. The demonstration implemented innovations designed to improve the employment outcomes of nonblind state vocational rehabilitation clients receiving Social Security Disability Insurance.
This report presents findings from the Kentucky SGA Project demonstration. The demonstration implemented innovations designed to improve the employment outcomes of nonblind state vocational rehabilitation clients receiving Social Security Disability Insurance.
This brief illustrates how state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies can use performance management tools and processes to leverage their data systems to improve their programs.
This study aims to better identify barriers to and facilitators of employment for individuals with psychiatric disabilities and how these factors may differ for individuals with physical disabilities.
The AbilityOne program uses federal procurement to promote the employment of workers with disabilities.
This brief provides an overview of time-limited benefits—as developed in several different proposals to reform SSDI—and an evidence-based assessment of their potential to reduce pressure on the SSDI trust fund and improve the well-being of individuals with disabilities.
Existing survey and administrative data provide little information on why individuals with disabilities have had persistently low employment rates and why some groups of individuals fare better in the labor market than others.
State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies provide services to a diverse population of approximately one million people with disabilities annually (RSA, 2016) seeking support to achieve their independent living and employment goals.
This report presents findings on Kentucky’s experience implementing the Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) Project demonstration during the first nine months of operation.
This report presents findings on Minnesota’s experience implementing the Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) Project demonstration during the first nine months of operation.
This issue brief summarizes our research findings on the factors related to geographic variation and the growth of the child Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.
Although people with disabilities have poorer employment outcomes, on average, than do people without disabilities, some of them fare relatively well in the labor market.