Does Parental Disability Matter to Child Education? Evidence from Vietnam
This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables regressions indicate that children of par...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110801083520 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3505 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the effect of
parental disability on school enrollment and educational
performance for children in the 2006 Vietnam Household
Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables
regressions indicate that children of parents with a
disability have a lower enrollment rate in primary and
secondary school of about 8 percentage points: 73 percent
compared with 81 percent. However, the association of
parental disability with educational performance is small
and not statistically significant. The conclusion of the
paper is that to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of
universal primary school as well as increased coverage of
secondary education, the government should have policies and
programs that either directly support the education of
children with disabled parents and/or have policies that
support disabled adults, thus lessening the incentive for
their children not to attend school. |
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