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A Rapid Appraisal of The PKPS-BBM Education Sector : School Operational Assistance (BOS)

Suharyo, Widjajanti I.; Sumarto, Sudarno; Hastuti; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

In March and October 2005, the Government of Indonesia reduced fuel subsidy and allocated part of the funds to the BOS (Bantuan Operasional Sekolah-School Operational Assistance) Program, which commenced in July 2005. This program is provided for schools at the primary and junior high school...

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Education Impact Study : The Global Recession and the Capacity of Colleges and Universities to Serve Vulnerable Populations in Asia

Postiglione, Gerard - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global recessionan Asia far more economically integrated than during past economic shocks, with more...

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Making Services Work for the Poor in Indonesia : A Report on Health Financing Mechanisms in Kabupaten Tabanan, Bali : A Case Study

Arifianto, Alex; Marianti, Ruly; Budiyati, Sri; Tan, Ellen - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

Based on the notion that good health is one of the basic right of all citizens, the Government of Indonesia (GoI) has promoted programs on health care financing for the poor. One of these programs is the Jaminan Pemeliharaan Kesehatan (JPK). In 2003, the pilot project on JPK for the poor...

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What Matter for Child Development?

Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper estimates production functions of child cognitive and social development using a panel data of nine-year old children each with over two hundred home and school inputs as well as family background variables. A tree regression method is used to conduct estimation under various...

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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...

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Number of Children and their Education in Philippine Households

Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this link by focusing on the relation between number of children and school attendance of children 6 to 24 years old. It surveys the international...

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Higher Education in India - The Need for Change

Agarwal, Pawan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Higher education in India suffers from several systemic deficiencies. As a result, it continues to provide graduates … little informed public debate on higher education in India. …

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Dynamic Treatment Effect Analysis of TV Effects on Child Cognitive Development

Huang, Fali; Lee, Myoung-jae - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

We investigate whether TV watching at ages 6-7 and 8-9 affects cognitive development measured by math and reading scores at ages 8-9 using a rich childhood longitudinal sample from NLSY79. Dynamic panel data models are estimated to handle the unobserved child-specific factor, endogeneity of TV...

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Schooling and Political Participation Revisited

Chor, Davin; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is affected by country characteristics. We introduce a focus on a set of variables - namely factor endowments - which inuence the relative productivity of human capital in political versus production activities....

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The Role of Convertible Securities in Venture Capital Financing

Chang, Shih-Chung - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

entrepreneurs are better informed than the venture capitalists (VCs). We demonstrate that for a well-designed contract the … variability of the return is sufficiently large, the entrepreneurs will find it desirable to rely on convertible securities with … with which the entrepreneurs are awarded equity shares without investment outlays. We compare the different financing …

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