Methods for Estimating the Impact of Disability Costs for Designing Inclusive Policies

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article has a generalized form and the presented methods were not directly used by the authors in a specific applied research, and the given examples do not allow us to draw conclusions about the originality of the article.

The recommendation is to fully consider the suggestions and submit them for the next review.

Thank you!

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Thank you for reviewing our article and providing us ways to improve it.

1. We expanded the abstract to provide readers with a more detailed summary of what the article sets out to do.
2. As suggested, we have added a table to summarize the difference between the GS and GSR methods
3. We have also added a second table, as suggested, to summarize the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches
4. We don't quite understand the last point, namely 

   do not cite personal studies when using the specified methods, but only individual examples and in individual countries, but according to this, it is not enough to clarify the applied significance of the obtained results.

   We have cited  the major studies in this area over the last few years, as well as a review article that summarizes previous studies. And disability costs must be done on a country by country basis because they are so specific to the local context. In a next article we could do a meta-analysis to show how disability costs and patterns of costs are the same or differ across countries, but that was not the purpose of this paper. This paper was to discuss the usefulness of different approaches to measure the costs incurred by people with disabilities

Reviewer 2 Report

The article is an important contribution to scholarship on the costs of disability. It summarizes the methods for calculating the costs, the advantages and problems with each and the implications for policy. It is well structured and referenced. It is a useful contribution for international scholars and policy makers interested in the conceptual reasoning for the methods and for application in particular locations or for comparative analysis.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your kind comments. Attention to disability costs is growing internationally, and we felt it was important to come together as a group and come to a consensus on how to best approach this issue.

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

I repeat the previous conclusions.

The article has a generalized form and the presented methods were not directly used by the authors in a specific applied research, and the given examples do not allow us to draw conclusions about the originality of the article.

If, from the point of view of theoretical research, the article is of interest to the reader and can be recommended for publication.

Thank you!