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Intersectoral Migration in Southeast Asia: Evidence from Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines

Butzer, Rita; Mundlak, Yair; Larson, Donald F. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 35 (2003)

Using time-series data spanning three decades, we examine the determinants of sectoral migration in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. We used a principal-components algorithm to address the problems associated with trended and intercorrelated explanatory variables. Migration rates in the...

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More and Better Jobs in South Asia

Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012

This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this … several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …/01/09/000333038_20120109022653/Rendered/PDF/662290PUB0EPI00r0jobs0in0south0asia.pdf] …

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Review: Bräuchler, Birgit (ed.), Reconciling Indonesia. Grassroots Agency for Peace

Ottendörfer, Eva - In: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 29 (2010) 2, pp. 180-185

Review of the edited volume: Bräuchler, Birgit (ed.) (2009), Reconciling Indonesia. Grassroots Agency for Peace, London/New York: Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415487047, 272 pages.

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What happens after you drop out? Transition to adulthood among early school-leavers in urban Indonesia

Utomo, Ariane; Reimondos, Anna; Utomo, Iwu; McDonald, Peter - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 41, pp. 1189-1218

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Dual Burden Households and Nutritional Inequality in Indonesia

Roemling, Cornelia; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2012

Overweight is an increasing problem in many developing countries, coexisting with underweight and contributing to a dual burden of malnutrition, sometimes in the same households. We analyze the dual burden phenomenon in Indonesia, using panel data that span a time period of 15 years. Today, 17...

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Do children spend too much time in schools? Evidence from a longer school year in Indonesia

Parinduri, Rasyad A. - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 89-104

I examine the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978–1979, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find...

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Irrigation and income-poverty alleviation: a comparative analysis of irrigation systems in developing Asia

Hussain, Intizar; Wijerathna, Deeptha - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2004

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Obesity Trends, Determinants and Policy Implications in Indonesia

Roemling, Cornelia; Qaim, Matin - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

Obesity is becoming a serious issue in many developing countries, with negative implications for economic growth and human wellbeing. While previous micro level studies on obesity have mostly used cross-section data, we analyze trends and determinants with panel data from Indonesia. Over the...

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Power, Ownership and Tourism in Small Islands: Evidence from Indonesia

Hampton, Mark P.; Jeyacheya, Julia - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 481-495

This paper examines the political economy of tourism development in islands and uses Gili Trawangan, Indonesia as a case study. A longitudinal study drawing from fieldwork contributes to the discussion of how different types of power shape community development, and how the effects of hosting...

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Education does not seem to improve health: Evidence from Indonesia

Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an extension of Indonesia's school term length in 1978-1979, a natural experiment that fits a regression discontinuity design. I find the longer school year increases educational...

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