Persons with disabilities face substantial barriers that impede their integration and
participation in social and economic activities. Households with disabled members may be …

We leverage the onset of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in childhood to estimate the impact of a
childhood health shock on parental labor supply. T1D is the second most common …

For parents with disabled children labour market participation is difficult since these children
require care that exceeds typical parental care. At the same time, disabled children often live …

Caring for children with increased care needs can be demanding and the time required to
provide such care hampers parents' employment participation. Especially, mothers and …

This paper examines racial disparity in wage income earnings in the USA across different
quantiles, after accounting for the endogeneity of labor market engagement which is …

This study uses administrative data and an event study methodology to analyze the impact
of childbirth and the birth of a child with a disability on labor market outcomes of mothers and …

The purpose of this qualitative study was to evaluate the motherhood experience when
caring for adult children with profound intellectual disabilities. The study was conducted in …

In the first chapter, we discuss the impact of death and illness on household income and non-
health consumption for the overall sample and subsamples. With a few exceptions, the …

This thesis contains four chapters on health problems and their impact on household
economic outcomes. The first three chapters are interrelated and all conduct empirical …

The Belgian system of targeted cash support for children with a disability succeeds in
reducing their risk of income poverty. As demonstrated in this thesis, even though their …