Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Akresh, Richard; Halim, Daniel; Kleemans, Marieke
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; The World Bank
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueac058
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 582-612
• 关键词: DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; Cash transfer; returns; impacts; HEALTH; transmission; INEQUALITY; enrollment; fertility; run

摘要

We study long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school construction program. Exploiting variation across birth cohorts and districts in the number of schools built suggests that 43 years later men are more likely to work formally, outside agriculture, and migrate, and that men and women have better marriage market outcomes. Households with exposed women have higher living standards and pay more taxes. The mother's program exposure leads to increased schooling for her children, with larger effects in secondary and tertiary education. Cost-benefit analyses indicate that school construction leads to higher tax revenues and improved living standards, offsetting construction costs within 18-54 years.