considerable share of women in Indonesia works in the labor market in order to finance basic expenditures on their children …Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases … period 1993-2008. The final sample comprises about 850,000 woman aged 21 to 35 with at least two children. Identifcation of …

rural areas of Indonesia on two cohorts of children. One cohort was children aged 4 at the start of the project and was … immediately eligible for project-provided services when they began operation in 2009. The other cohort was children aged 1 at the … across children from different backgrounds, the impact on child outcomes is larger for children from more disadvantaged …

rural areas of Indonesia on two cohorts of children. One cohort was children aged 4 at the start of the project and was … immediately eligible for project-provided services when they began operation in 2009. The other cohort was children aged 1 at the … across children from different backgrounds, the impact on child outcomes is larger for children from more disadvantaged …

This paper examines the longer-term impact of a project that expanded access to playgroup services in rural Indonesia …. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …

. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …