ABSTRACT

Disability-inclusive development is receiving growing attention as a pressing international development issue. Disability-inclusive development is especially urgent and complicated in post-conflict countries. This paper examines the impacts of vocational training on economic empowerment and social reintegration among demobilised ex-combatants with disabilities in Rwanda. This is the first quasi-experimental study on vocational training for disabled ex-combatants. Exploiting the variation in the timing of training uptake within the same training course, we employ a pipeline approach in the following three steps: (1) trimming to guarantee common support within courses, (2) exact matching on key covariates within courses, and (3) regression controlling for covariates within courses based on the matched sample. The results show that the training greatly increased not only employment and earnings, but also trainees’ reintegration into the family and community. The results are robust to potential omitted variable bias and attrition bias according to a coefficient stability test and bound analysis, respectively. Our findings suggest a significant potential of vocational training for disabled ex-combatants in disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration programmes. Our study exemplifies the utility of a credibly designed pipeline approach, which can be applied in a wide range of development projects in practice.

摘要

包容残疾的发展作为一个紧迫的国际发展问题正受到越来越多的关注。在冲突后国家，包容残疾的发展尤其紧迫和复杂。本文研究了职业培训对卢旺达已复员的残疾前战斗人员的经济赋权和重新融入社会的影响。这是第一个关于残疾前战斗人员职业培训的准实验性研究。利用同一培训课程中培训吸收时间的变化，我们在以下三个步骤中采用管道方法：（1）修剪以保证课程内的共同支持，（2）课程内关键协变量的精确匹配，以及（ 3) 基于匹配样本的课程内协变量的回归控制。结果表明，培训不仅大大增加了就业和收入，而且使学员重新融入家庭和社区。根据系数稳定性测试和界限分析，结果分别对潜在的遗漏变量偏差和损耗偏差具有鲁棒性。我们的研究结果表明，在解除武装、复员和重返社会方案中为残疾前战斗人员提供职业培训的潜力很大。我们的研究举例说明了设计可靠的管道方法的效用，该方法可以在实践中应用于广泛的开发项目。分别。我们的研究结果表明，在解除武装、复员和重返社会方案中为残疾前战斗人员提供职业培训的潜力很大。我们的研究举例说明了设计可靠的管道方法的效用，该方法可以在实践中应用于广泛的开发项目。分别。我们的研究结果表明，在解除武装、复员和重返社会方案中为残疾前战斗人员提供职业培训的潜力很大。我们的研究举例说明了设计可靠的管道方法的效用，该方法可以在实践中应用于广泛的开发项目。