Access to higher education for people with disabilities in Cali, Colombia: poverty paradigms and challenges for inclusion

Sebastián Velandia (), Maribel Castillo () and Melissa Ramírez ()
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Sebastián Velandia: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Maribel Castillo: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Melissa Ramírez: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Lecturas de Economía, 2018, issue 89, 69-101

Abstract: This article analyzes the problems of socioeconomic vulnerability and access to higher education facing people with disabilities in Cali, Colombia. The methodology, evaluated from the conception of poverty, consists of the estimation of a multilevel econometric model and a social experiment. The main sources of data used were the Survey of Employment and Quality of Life conducted for Cali in 2013 and data obtained from a private university in this city in 2016. The results indicate that such population presents a poverty perception rate 1.84 times higher and a probability of accessing higher education 47.71 % lower than the rest of the population, as well as a commune effect more incident than that of the household or district to which they belong.

Keywords: disability; education and inequality; general welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I31 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.17533/udea.le.n89a03

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