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Children around the world largely rely on the formal educational system to teach them foundational mathematics and reading skills. The inability of an educational system to do so may indicate it has structural constraints. In this paper, we take advantage of three rounds of a nationally...
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longitudinal dataset on Indonesia, we find strong negative effects of child labor on the growth of both numeracy and cognitive …
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in Indonesia and merge it with a nationally representative survey to create a dataset that contains migrants in urban …
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-Muslims. The analysis is done using a panel dataset from Indonesia that follows 3rd to 6th grade students over 14 years, until the … the renowned lack of gender education gap among Muslims in Indonesia is due to females' higher scholastic ability …
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This study measures the relative role of poverty and scholastic ability on education attainment in developing countries, where a substantial portion of the population still live in poverty and poor people are markedly credit constrained. Different from most studies in developing countries, this...
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Children around the world largely rely on the formal educational system to teach them foundational mathematics and reading skills. The inability of an educational system to do so may indicate it has structural constraints. In this paper, we take advantage of three rounds of a nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610167
in Indonesia and merge it with a nationally representative survey to create a dataset that contains migrants in urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861957
This paper compares the labour market returns to ability in Indonesia and the United States. In Indonesia, I find that … is more rewarded in the US, while higher cognitive skills is more rewarded in Indonesia …
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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. …
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these issues in the context of Indonesia, a low-middle-income country in which almost half of workers are self …
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