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Title: Essays on Childhood Disability, Policy, and Family Outcomes
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Costanzo, Molly A. |
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Essays on Childhood Disability, Policy, and Family Outcomes Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Social Welfare, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Child Care; Disability; Maternal Employment; Relationship Conflict Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The first paper uses a two-pronged approach to understand whether families with young children with disabilities are able to access child care. I find that children with disabilities are more likely to be in non-parental care, more likely to be in care part-time, more likely to use center-based care, and more likely to pay less for care than typically-developing children. Next, I examine whether changes in maternal employment rates at kindergarten are similar for moms raising children with and without disabilities and find that, if anything, moms of children with disabilities are entering the labor force at lower rates than other moms. In the second paper, I use a variety of models and find that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act increases parental attendance at conferences but has no overall effect on parental engagement. I find little evidence of impact on parental satisfaction with children's schools. Findings are consistent across racial and socioeconomic subgroups. In the final paper, I use propensity score matching and event history methods to examine how the risk of parental relationship dissolution differs by a child's special needs status. I find an overall increased risk of relationship dissolution for parents raising a child with special needs; this risk is statistically significant for cohabiting parents but not for married parents. |
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Costanzo, Molly A. Essays on Childhood Disability, Policy, and Family Outcomes. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Social Welfare, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020. |