Wheels of fortune: the economic impacts of wheelchair provision in Ethiopia
| Autor: | Justin L Grider, Bruce Wydick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Program evaluation
030506 rehabilitation Economic growth 050204 development studies 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Time allocation Internal rate of return Development Seemingly unrelated regressions 03 medical and health sciences Wheelchair Donation 0502 economics and business Demographic economics Business Economic impact analysis Endogeneity 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Development Effectiveness. 8:44-66 |
| ISSN: | 1943-9407 1943-9342 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19439342.2015.1064986 |
| Popis: | Although approximately 1 billion people in the world live with physical disabilities, there is a lack of rigorous research on the economic impacts of providing assistive devices for persons with disabilities. This study involves 261 people with disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where 121 had received wheelchair donations through nonprofit organisations. Using covariate matching (CVM), seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) and a series of robustness checks for endogeneity, it is found that those given access to a wheelchair devoted 1.75 more hours per day to work, 1.40 fewer hours per day to street begging and realised a 77.5 per cent increase in income. Results point to a 122 per cent internal rate of return based on new income created from wheelchair donation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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