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People with disabilities have the right to live in the community, according to Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. However, more than a decade after the adoption of the CRPD by the UN and nearly global ratification, children with disabilities continue to be placed in institutions in every region of the world. Worse still, low-middle income countries that have never had systems of institutionalization have started to build them.
In 2017, the CRPD Committee adopted general comment No. 5 on Article 19 on living independently and being included in the…
Although previous research often assumes that household structure is exogenous, the results of this paper provide strong evidence against the validity of that assumption. This paper analyzes a household’s decision to adjust its composition by sending and receiving children and finds that a household is significantly more likely to send out a child if it experiences a negative income shock, has a better quality social network, or has additional children in a given age and gender class. Quantifying the magnitude of this impact shows that increases of one standard deviation in a household’s…
People with disabilities have the right to live in the community, according to Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. However, more than a decade after the adoption of the CRPD by the UN and nearly global ratification, children with disabilities continue to be placed in institutions in every region of the world. As countries seek to uphold their obligations to the CRPD and approach care reform for children with disabilities, the end of institutionalization will only be successful if reforms include preventative measures and family strengthening efforts. By…