Disability, poverty, and schooling in developing countries: results from 11 household surveys

Disabled children are less likely to participate in school

By: Filmer D
Produced by: World Bank , 2005

This paper analyses the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their household, and their school participation. The research uses 11 household surveys from nine developing countries - Jamaica, Romania, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mozambique, Burundi, Myanmar, Mongolia and Sierra Leone.

The paper is structured as follows: section two compares definitions and the prevalence of disability across the household surveys covered; section three investigates the association with poverty by examining the extent to which young people with disabilities live in households with lower economic status; and section four investigates the long run association with poverty by examining the association between disability and school participation among school-aged youth.