Using a sufficiently long-spanning longitudinal dataset, we estimate the short and long term effects of maternal and paternal death on children’s school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether there are any gender dimensions in the effects.
This study examines the impact of private sector growth on poverty reduction in Indonesia, utilizing data spanning from 2000 to 2020. The analysis employs econometric models to investigate the relationship between private sector development and poverty alleviation, focusing on key indicators such as employment generation, income levels, and access to basic services. The findings indicate that r…
Conceptually, the effect of child labor on human capital is ambiguous. On one hand, working can displace schooling. Even in the case where working and schooling go hand-in-hand, the negative effect of working can come through reducing time available for studying, playing, and sleeping.
This study measures the relative role of poverty and scholastic ability on education attainment in developing countries, where a substantial portion of the population still live in poverty and poor people are markedly credit constrained. Different from most studies in developing countries, this paper uses a multiple-wave and long-spanning panel dataset that follows a cohort of children beginnin…