This study evaluates the effect of four randomized interventions aimed at strengthening school committees, and subsequently improving learning outcomes, in public primary schools in Indonesia. All study schools were randomly allocated to either a control group receiving no intervention, or to...

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...

This paper compares the labour market returns to ability in Indonesia and the United States. In Indonesia, I find that the mathematics ability has no significant effect on income, while general cognitive ability positively affects income, with higher ability rewarded at an increasing rate....

The abundance of small enterprises in developing countries has led to debates regarding the role that of entrepreneurial skill in business performance. Analyses of the skills and characteristics important for success can inform entrepreneurship training programs or educational curricula designed...

This study reviews the measures of unemployment used in Indonesia. The finding indicates that the relaxation of labor force definition in 2001 by including discouraged workers results in artificially high unemployment rates and disguises the actual decline in unemployment post-crisis. Another...

This study provides an overview of inequality trends in Indonesia for the period from 1984 to 2002. Different from previous studies on inequality in Indonesia, we use data on household consumption expenditure that takes into account price differentials across regions. We found that, although all...