abstract: 'In this paper, we estimate wage returns to investment in education for

  persons with disabilities in Nepal, using information on the timing of

  being impaired during school-age years as identifying instrumental

  variables for years of schooling. We employ unique data collected from

  persons with hearing, physical, and visual impairments as well as

  nationally representative survey data from the Nepal Living Standard

  Survey 2003/2004 (NLSS II). After controlling for endogeneity bias

  arising from schooling decisions as well as sample selection bias due to

  endogenous labor participation, the estimated rate of returns to

  education is very high among persons with disabilities, ranging from

  19.3 to 25.6\%. The coexistence of these high returns to education and

  limited years of schooling suggest that supply side constraints in

  education to accommodate persons with disabilities and/or there are

  credit market imperfections. Policies to eliminate these barriers will

  mitigate poverty among persons with disabilities, the largest minority

  group in the world. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Sawada, Y (Corresponding Author), Univ Tokyo, Fac Econ, Bunkyo Ku, 7-3-1
  Hongo, Tokyo 1130033, Japan.

  Lamichhane, Kamal, Univ Tokyo, JICA Res Inst, Japan Int Cooperat Agcy, Tokyo 1138654,
  Japan.

  Lamichhane, Kamal, Univ Tokyo, Adv Sci \& Technol Res Ctr, Tokyo 1138654, Japan.

  Sawada, Yasuyuki, Univ Tokyo, Fac Econ, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan.'
author: Lamichhane, Kamal and Sawada, Yasuyuki
author-email: sawada@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
author_list:
- family: Lamichhane
  given: Kamal
- family: Sawada
  given: Yasuyuki
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.08.007
eissn: 1873-7382
files: []
issn: 0272-7757
journal: ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW
keywords: Disability; Nepal; Returns to the investment in education
keywords-plus: SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; EMPLOYMENT; PEOPLE; WAGE
language: English
month: DEC
number-of-cited-references: '31'
orcid-numbers: Sawada, Yasuyuki/0000-0002-4167-7697
pages: 85-94
papis_id: 4bf5af234b8fdbb2772980e40fcd141d
ref: Lamichhane2013disabilityreturns
times-cited: '15'
title: Disability and returns to education in a developing country
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000329557800008
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usage-count-since-2013: '21'
volume: '37'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Education \& Educational Research
year: '2013'