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Inequality of Opportunity Linked to Disability in School Enrollment among Youth: Evidence from Egypt
Country: Egypt
Classification: Visual, Hearing-Speech, Movement, Loss of Feeling, Mental Illness, Intellectual
Year of Publication: 2019
Study Type:
Quantitative Study
Sample Size:
12651
The Research party:
1.Department of Demography and Biostatistics, Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University, Egypt. 2.The working paper was supported by the Economic Research Forum (ERF)
Main Idea or Research Questions:
The paper provides a profile of youth with a disability, and examines the impact of disability among youth on their school enrollment in Egypt. Results of this study revealed that disability plays a dominant role in hindering school enrollment, and it interacts with the individual’s standard of living in a way that exacerbates inequity in educational opportunities.