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Author: Mann, David R.
Resulting in 8 citations.
1. Honeycutt, Todd C.
Mann, David R.
Crime and Parenthood: Factors Affecting the Outcomes of Adolescents With and Without Disabilities
Working Paper 37, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ, March 2015
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Keyword(s): Crime; Disability; Educational Outcomes; Employment; Parenthood

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

BACKGROUND: Adolescents often engage in behaviors that can detrimentally affect outcomes for the rest of their lives. In addition to avoiding such behaviors, youth with disabilities face other challenges that complicate their transitions into adulthood.

OBJECTIVE: In this analysis, we explore how two risk factors (criminal behavior and parenthood) in adolescence influenced the education and employment outcomes of young adults. We pay special attention to the interaction between disability status and these factors.

METHOD: Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we produce summary statistics and estimate several regression models; examining respondent outcomes at age 24.

RESULTS: Despite increased prevalence among youth with disabilities, parenthood and crime did not appear to affect education or employment outcomes any more than these factors affected the outcomes of youth without disabilities.

CONCLUSION: Multiple risk factors are intertwined and are associated with poorer outcomes, which suggest the need for better identification issues and supports in secondary school. The issue of higher prevalence of dropping out of high school and having certain risk factors might reflect the lower cognitive ability of youth with mental limitations, but environmental factors could also be influential.

Bibliography Citation
Honeycutt, Todd C. and David R. Mann. "Crime and Parenthood: Factors Affecting the Outcomes of Adolescents With and Without Disabilities." Working Paper 37, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ, March 2015.
2. Mann, David R.
Choosing to Serve: Understanding the Military Participation Decision
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Labor Force Participation; Military Enlistment; Military Service; Racial Differences; Wage Gap; Wages

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With 2.4 million employees, the military is America's largest employer. Individuals make the military labor force participation decision within the context of other labor market opportunities, which may vary by race and over the business cycle. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic discrete choice model of lifetime career decision making that incorporates military options. In the model, forward-looking individuals receive wage offers from the civilian and military sectors and decide whether to work in the civilian sector, attend school, stay home, serve active duty military, or serve reserve duty military. The model describes the military's compensation structure and recruitment policies in detail and introduces business cycle effects that affect civilian labor market opportunities. The model is estimated by simulated maximum likelihood using data on males from the NLSY79. Parameter estimates reveal that the civilian sector places a high premium on civilian experience relative to military experience. The model fits well military participation patterns and dynamics, including by race and over the business cycle. The model is used to perform experiments that alter the military compensation and promotion structure. Results indicate that military participation is highly elastic with respect to changes in the wage rate. Other experiments reveal that blacks' participation in the military drops dramatically as the racial wage gap in the civilian sector de- creases. Experiments that alter the length and severity of business cycles result in military participation rate effects that range from 3% to 6%.
Bibliography Citation
Mann, David R. Choosing to Serve: Understanding the Military Participation Decision. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
3. Mann, David R.
Why We Fight: Understanding Military Participation over the Life Cycle
Journal of Human Capital 6,4 (Winter 2012): 279-315.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/668863
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Business Cycles; Human Capital; Labor Supply; Life Cycle Research; Military Service

This paper specifies a dynamic career decision model that includes military service options to understand how human capital, compensation, the business cycle, and combat risk affect the military labor supply. The model is estimated using data on males from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
Bibliography Citation
Mann, David R. "Why We Fight: Understanding Military Participation over the Life Cycle." Journal of Human Capital 6,4 (Winter 2012): 279-315.
4. Mann, David R.
Honeycutt, Todd C.
Changes in Disability Status and Survey Attrition for Youth: A Longitudinal Analysis
Mathematica Policy Research Final Report, Submitted to National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education, December 2014
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Keyword(s): Attrition; Disability; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Nonresponse

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Disability status--experiencing a functional limitation caused by a health condition--is dynamic throughout the life cycle, even during adolescence and young adulthood. Changes in disability status early in the life cycle may have especially strong ties to future outcomes such as educational attainment and employment. We used data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to better understand these dynamics, examining how disability status evolves during adolescence and young adulthood and how changes in disability status are related to survey non-response and attrition. The dynamics of disability are evident in our data: the proportion of sample members who reported having a disability for any interview increased from about 12 percent during the initial interview (when sample members were 12 to 17 years old) to almost 25 percent 13 years later. Multivariate analysis revealed that women are more likely than men to report changes in health condition or disability status. Those with mild disabilities were relatively less likely than those without or with severe disabilities to experience changes in disability status. Somewhat surprisingly, a survival analysis of survey participation outcomes found limited correlation between health conditions, disability status, and either missing a survey interview for the first time or permanently leaving the survey sample.
Bibliography Citation
Mann, David R. and Todd C. Honeycutt. "Changes in Disability Status and Survey Attrition for Youth: A Longitudinal Analysis." Mathematica Policy Research Final Report, Submitted to National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education, December 2014.
5. Mann, David R.
Honeycutt, Todd C.
Is Timing Everything? Disability Onset of Youth and Their Outcomes As Young Adults
Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 25, 2 (July 2014): 117-129.
Also: http://dps.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/04/22/1044207313484176.abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Adolescent Health; Disability; Education; Human Capital; Labor Force Participation; Transition, Adulthood

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The accumulation of human capital during childhood and adolescence greatly influences the value employers place on youth as they transition into the adult labor market. Disabilities acquired prior to adulthood have the potential to disrupt this critical human capital accumulation. This study examines how disability onset among youth affects their education and employment outcomes as young adults. We find that youth with limiting disabilities—especially mental limiting impairments—have poorer labor market and human capital outcomes than their peers without limitations. We also discover some evidence that youth with persistent or later onset disabilities have poorer outcomes than those whose disabilities dissipate as they become adults. These findings suggest that surveys targeting youth and young adults should consider including better measures of disability onset and mental impairment status to understand the disability characteristics of this population.
Bibliography Citation
Mann, David R. and Todd C. Honeycutt. "Is Timing Everything? Disability Onset of Youth and Their Outcomes As Young Adults." Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 25, 2 (July 2014): 117-129.
6. Mann, David R.
Honeycutt, Todd C.
Understanding the Disability Dynamics of Youth: Health Condition and Limitation Changes for Youth and Their Influence on Longitudinal Survey Attrition
Demography 53,3 (June 2016): 749-776.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-016-0469-7
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Attrition; Disability; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Nonresponse

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Disability status--experiencing a functional limitation caused by a health condition--is dynamic throughout the life cycle, even during adolescence and young adulthood. We use data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to better understand these dynamics, examining how health condition and limitation statuses evolve during adolescence and young adulthood as well as how changes in these characteristics are related to survey nonresponse and attrition. Health condition and limitation dynamics are evident in our data: the proportion of sample members who reported having a limitation in their activities for any interview increased from approximately 12% during the initial interview (when sample members were 12 to 17 years old) to almost 25% 13 years later. Multivariate analyses revealed that women are more likely than men to report changes in health condition or limitation status. Those with mild limitations were relatively less likely than those without limitations or with severe limitations to experience changes in limitation status. Somewhat surprisingly, a survival analysis of survey participation outcomes found limited correlation among health conditions, limitations, and either missing a survey interview for the first time or permanently leaving the survey sample.
Bibliography Citation
Mann, David R. and Todd C. Honeycutt. "Understanding the Disability Dynamics of Youth: Health Condition and Limitation Changes for Youth and Their Influence on Longitudinal Survey Attrition." Demography 53,3 (June 2016): 749-776.
7. Mann, David R.
Wittenburg, David C.
Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities
Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, April 2014.
Also: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/~/media/publications/pdfs/disability/explaining_differentials_wp.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Keyword(s): Disability; Employment; Labor Force Participation; Wage Gap; Wages; Wages, Reservation

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We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to estimate and decompose the employment and offered wages of young adults with and without disabilities. Those with functional limitations that are severe or mental have the lowest relative employment rates and wage offers. The employment rate gaps between the “no limitations” group and the “severe limitations” and “mental limitations” groups are 20.0 and 15.0 percentage points, respectively. These large gaps in employment provide quantitative evidence that many young adults with disabilities decide not to enter the labor force because they receive wage offers that are below their reservation wage. The wage offer differential between those without limitations and those with severe limitations or mental limitations are 10.9 and 52.1 percentage points, respectively. We attribute most of the employment rate gaps to observed factors, whereas most of the wage offer gaps are the result of unobserved factors. Removing the proportion of the wage offer gap attributable to unexplained differences increases the employment rate among those with mental functional limitations by 1.4 percent.
Bibliography Citation
Mann, David R. and David C. Wittenburg. "Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities." Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, April 2014.
8. Mann, David R.
Wittenburg, David C.
Starting Behind: Wage and Employment Differentials Between Young Adults With and Without Disabilities
Journal of Disability Policy Studies 26,2 (September 2015): 89-99.
Also: http://dps.sagepub.com/content/26/2/89.abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Disability; Employment; Wage Gap; Wages

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

We estimate the wage offers and employment of young adults with and without disabilities using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data. We find evidence that wage offer and employment gaps between adults with and without disabilities emerge early and are largest for those with mental limitations or any type of severe limitation. The wage offer gaps we estimate between people with and without disabilities are almost always larger than the wage gaps between those groups. These employment and wage offer gaps that exist in early adulthood likely help explain some of the differences in human capital, employment, and earnings between older adults with and without disabilities. The results also highlight the need for interventions that improve the employability and wage offers of youth with disabilities.
Bibliography Citation
Mann, David R. and David C. Wittenburg. "Starting Behind: Wage and Employment Differentials Between Young Adults With and Without Disabilities." Journal of Disability Policy Studies 26,2 (September 2015): 89-99.