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  • Earning and Conversion Handicaps and the Welfare Economics of Disability

  • Luke B. Connelly
  • Journal:
    International Journal of Disability Management / Volume 3 / Issue 2 / 01 September 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 February 2012, pp. 61-67
    Print publication:
    01 September 2008

  • Sen (2004) has distinguished between two types of handicap that are commonly associated with disabilities, viz. an ‘earning handicap’ and a ‘conversion handicap’. In this article, these concepts are considered, extended, and developed conceptually within the framework of a Grossman-type model. This model is then used to consider how the welfare implications of disability and the attendant handicaps may be conceived. A utilitarian framework of the kind associated with conventional welfare economics is invoked, but extra-welfarist-type policies are also discussed. The article shows how the concepts of disability and handicap may be given a tractable conceptual economic basis, and how the welfare effects of social policies towards people with disabilities can usefully be analysed within the resulting framework.