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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
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Between 1973 and 1978, the Indonesian government engaged in one of the largest school construction programs on record. Combining differences across regions in the number of schools constructed with differences across cohorts induced by the timing of the program suggests that each primary school constructed per 1,000 children led to an average increase of 0.12 to 0.19 years of education, as well as a 1.5 to 2.7 percent increase in wages. This implies estimates of economic returns to education ranging from 6.8 to 10.6 percent. (JEL I2, J31, O15, O22)
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“For instance, in Duflo (2001), under a common trends assumption on D i,g,t (0) , the number of years of schooling individuals would complete if zero new schools were constructed in their district, the first stage coefficient identifies a weighted sum of the effect of one new school on years of schooling in every district, with many negative weights.”
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“However, the discussion above shows that this result does not generalize to applications with multiple groups and periods or a non-binary instrument, as in Duflo (2001) where the number of new schools constructed varies across districts.”
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- Authors
- Duflo, E.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Duflo, Esther
- ORCID
- Duflo, Esther
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2001-09-01
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 795-813
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3124366560
- Cited by
- 1,940
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 160 · 2025: 144 · 2024: 116 · 2023: 100 · 2022: 102 · 2021: 109 · 2020: 90 · 2019: 106 · 2018: 81 · 2017: 97 · 2016: 80 · 2015: 79 · 2014: 83 · 2013: 81 · 2012: 74
- FWCI
- 123.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Economic Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Productivity
- Keywords
- school construction, education policy, economic returns to education, wages, primary education, labor market outcomes, Indonesia, policy experiments
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