01343nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001653001600042653002200058653002000080653002300100653001700123100001300140700001300153245008100166856007000247300001000317490000600327520079000333022001401123       2016                            d10aWheelchairs10atreatment effects10atime allocation10aProgram evaluation10aDisabilities1 aGrider J1 aWydick B00aWheels of fortune: the economic impacts of wheelchair provision in Ethiopia.  uhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19439342.2015.1064986  a44-660 v83 a<p>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.</p>
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