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The Effect of School Operational Assistance Program on Investment in Education by Households: Evidence from Indonesia

Economics and Finance in Indonesia

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Title The Effect of School Operational Assistance Program on Investment in Education by Households: Evidence from Indonesia
 
Creator Sari, Nia Pramita
Tanaka, Ryuichi
 
Subject School Operational Assistance; government program; investment in education
 
Description The School Operational Assistance Program, referred to as BOS, is a demand intervention program indirectly provided by the government of Indonesia to students through schools, started in July 2005. This paper examines the impact of BOS on educational investment by households and other expenditure such as food and non-food consumption. Using the observations of 1,161 households with at least one member studying in public school from the fourth wave of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS 4), we discover that BOS is effective in relaxing household’s budget constraint, thus increasing educational investment by households. We also discover that households with low income benefit significantly from BOS relative to those with high income. Additionally, we discover that BOS assists households, regardless of their income level, in increasing their spending on food and non-food items. 
 
Publisher Institute for Economic and Social Research
 
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Date 2019-12-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://efi.ui.ac.id/index.php/efi/article/view/637
10.47291/efi.v65i2.637
 
Source Economics and Finance in Indonesia; Volume 65, Number 2, December 2019; 149-168
2442-9260
0126-155X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://efi.ui.ac.id/index.php/efi/article/view/637/622
 
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