Dalam rangka memberikan akses layanan pendidikan bagi anak usia sekolah dari keluarga kurang mampu, pemerintah telah melaksanakan kebijakan pemberian bantuan tunai melalui Program Indonesia Pintar (PIP) untuk mengurangi biaya personal pendidikan mereka. Melalui akses pendidikan yang lebih baik, anak usia sekolah diharapkan dapat terus melanjutkan sekolah, mampu mengembangkan dan memaksimalkan p…
Drawing on the substitution axiom formulated by Basu and Van (1998) this study examines the nature of relationship between parental income and child labor supply in Indonesia. To estimate such relationship, we are benefited by panel data from the last two waves of Indonesia Family Life Survey (2007 and 2014). We tackle the potential endogeneity in parental income by controlling for parental fix…
Development indicators operate very dynamically in line with the government’s program and policy response. The government, therefore, needs an estimate of the poverty rate for a specific period in line with the development of its constituent indicators. The rate is required by the government to ensure the implemented policy can achieve the target according to the plan. Given the available ind…
The Government of Indonesia is facing a new challenge in tackling poverty since the pace of the fall in the poverty rate has been slowing over the five years to 2020. To date, poverty alleviation programs implemented by the Government of Indonesia have been limited to large administrative areas such as the district (kabupaten) level. For this study, we combined the Poverty Livelihood Map of …
To succeed in implementing programs to reduce the number of stunted children, accurate and timely data and information are required to serve as the basis for target and goal setting. The use of Riskesdas (Riset Kesehatan Dasar: Basic Health Research) is highly important to generate indicators on the Indonesian people’s health status and monitor the success of various government programs in th…
Database used to target social programs in Indonesia was updated every three years. Exclusion error and poverty dynamics in Indonesia have raised the question whether updating is required within that three year period. In this paper, we assess this issue by employing Susenas panel data to track changes in household characteristics and consumption mobility within three years. We find that househ…
Many developing country governments determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs using censuses of household assets. Does this distort subsequent reporting of, or actual purchases of, those assets? We ran a nationwide experiment in Indonesia where, in randomly selected provinces, the government added questions on flat-screen televisions and cell-phone SIM cards to the targeting census admini…