. Using Indonesia's anti-poverty program, this paper investigates which pre-program conditions are associated with community … village heads. I explore Indonesia's political context, which provides insight into these findings. …

Under Indonesia's anti-poverty program, IDT, the government provided selected poor villages with grants of the same …

market returns to numeracy and cognitive ability in Indonesia and the United States. In Indonesia, I find that numeracy has … higher cognitive skills only pertain to males in Indonesia, while females have higher returns to numeracy than males in the … Indonesia and the United States indicate that different economic structures indeed demand different sets of skills. …

dataset from Indonesia. A unique feature of the dataset is that it uses an identical test for two survey rounds, which implies …

. This paper provides a methodology for doing that. It is illustrated with a case study of Indonesia, a large newly …

Using taxation and household survey data, this paper estimates top income shares for Indonesia during 1920-2004. Our … evidence that top income shares fell in the early-2000s. For pre-war Indonesia, we decompose top income shares by income source … century, top income shares in Indonesia have been higher than in India, broadly comparable to Japan, and somewhat lower than …