Disability, Poverty, and Schooling in Developing Countries : Results from 14 Household Surveys

By D. Filmer. 2005

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This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their household, and their school participation using 11 household surveys from nine developing countries. Between 1 and 2 percent of the population is identified as having a disability. Youth with disabilities sometimes live in poorer households, but the extent of this concentration is typically neither large nor statistically significant. However, youth with disabilities are almost always substantially less likely to start school, and in some countries have lower transition rates resulting in lower schooling attainment. The order of magnitude of the school participation disability deficit is often larger than those associated with other characteristics such as gender, rural residence, or economic status differentials.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Aleksandra Posarac
2. Mitchell Loeb
3. Sophie Mitra
4. Jean-François Trani
5. Brandon Vick

In Safety Research

1. Sophie Mitra
2. Aleksandra Posarac
3. Mitchell Loeb
4. Jean-François Trani
5. Brandon Vick

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Sophie Mitra
2. Jean-François Trani
3. Mitchell Loeb
4. Aleksandra Posarac
5. Brandon Vick

Citations in the corpus

• Poverty and disability: A vicious circle? Evidence from Afghanistan and Zambia (2012, background): “I. Introduction In recent years, socioeconomic inequalities and disability prevalence have increasingly been considered as correlated (Beresford, 1996; Elwan, 1999; Welch, 2002; Yeo and Moore, 2003; Filmer, 2008).”
• Disability and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Multidimensional Study (2013, methodology): “Unlike several studies in the literature using cross sectional data (e.g., Filmer, 2008; Mitra & Sambamoorthi, 2008), no multivariable regression analysis was conducted given the simultaneity of disability and economic deprivation, possible measurement error for disability and omitted variables.”