Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2-2016
Abstract
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.
DOI
10.1080/19439342.2015.1064986
Recommended Citation
Grider, J., Wydick, B. Wheels of fortune: the economic impacts of wheelchair provision in Ethiopia (2016). Journal of Development Effectiveness, 8 (1), pp. 44-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2015.1064986
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Development Effectiveness on 2016-01-02, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19439342.2015.1064986