How various types of disabilities impact children’s school attendance and completion - Lessons learned from censuses in eight developing countries

Yifeng Luo, Rachel Yang Zhou, Suguru Mizunoya and Diogo Amaro

International Journal of Educational Development, 2020, vol. 77, issue C

Abstract: Equity in education is a central issue for researchers and policymakers, and inequality in access to education for students with disabilities is one of the most critical challenges. Existing studies treat school-age children with different kinds of disabilities as a homogeneous group due to sample size limitations, while this study sheds light on the interaction between education systems and heterogeneous disabilities using census data from eight developing countries in 2006-2012, overcoming the problem of small sample size. We find that there are consistent gaps in education indicators between students with and without disabilities and students with different kinds of disabilities.

Keywords: International education; Education equity; Children with disability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102222

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