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 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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Main Authors:	Cuong, Nguyen Viet, Mont, Daniel
Language:	English
Published:	2011-08-01
Subjects:	ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, ATTENDANCE RATE, BIRTH ORDER, BRAILLE, CHILD EDUCATION, CHILD LABOR, CHILD LABOUR, CHILDHOOD DISABILITY, CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, COGNITIVE DISABILITIES, DISABILITIES, DISABILITY, DISABLED, DISABLED ADULTS, DISABLED PARENT, DISABLED PARENTS, DISABLED PEOPLE, DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, EDUCATION OF PARENTS, EDUCATION OUTCOMES, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ENROLLMENT, ENROLLMENT OF CHILDREN, ENROLLMENT RATE, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, EQUALITY, ETHNIC MINORITIES, ETHNIC MINORITY, ETHNIC MINORITY CHILDREN, FAMILIES, FEMALE, FEMALES, GENDER, GENDER EQUALITY, GIRLS, HEARING, HIGH SCHOOLS, HIGHER EDUCATION, HOME, INCLUSION, LEADERSHIP, LEARNING, LEARNING ACTIVITIES, LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT, LEVELS OF EDUCATION, LIVING CONDITIONS, LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION, MINORITIES, MINORITY, OLDER CHILDREN, PARENT INVOLVEMENT, PARENTAL EDUCATION, PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT, PARENTAL SUPPORT, PARENTS EDUCATION, PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, REHABILITATION, RESIDENCE, RURAL AREAS, RURAL CHILDREN, SCHOOL AGE, SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, SCHOOL STUDENTS, SCHOOL YEAR, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLING OF GIRLS, SCHOOLS, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SELF-CARE, SEX, SEX BIAS, SIGN LANGUAGE, SOCIETIES, SOCIETY, TEACHER, TEACHER EDUCATION, TEACHERS, TEACHING, TECHNICAL SUPPORT, TRANSPORTATION, TUITION, UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION, VULNERABLE GROUPS, WILL,
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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/3505
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