Recovery from an Early-Life Shock through Improved Access to Schools: Evidence from Indonesia

• 발행기관: 한국재정학회(구 한국재정·공공경제학회)
• 저자명: Tushar Bharati Dawoon Jung(정다운)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국재정학회 학술대회 논문집』2019년대 경제학공학술대회-분과회의, 1~89쪽, 전체 89쪽
• 주제분류: 경제경영 > 경제학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2019.02.15

영문 초록

We examine the extent to which improved access to schools can help individuals overcome the impact of early-life resource shocks as proxied by low rainfall in the first year of life. Using information from the fifth wave of the Indonesian Family Life Survey, we show that individuals who experienced relatively low levels of rainfall in the first year of life have lower educational attainment. Next, using exogenous geographic variation in the intensity of an Indonesian primary school construction program, we show that individuals who experienced low rainfall in the first year of life but were later exposed to a primary school construction program recovered completely from their educational deficit. For individuals who did not experience the adverse rainfall shock in their first year of life, the school construction had no significant impact in the initial years. Evidence suggests that this was, in part, a result of deteriorating school infrastructure and increased competition to get into middle and high schools that accompanied the primary school construction and affected the high-rainfall individuals disproportionately.

목차

1 Introduction

2 Previous literature

3 Background

4 Conceptual framework

5 Empirical Strategy

6 Results

7 Mechanisms

8 Conclusion

키워드

Education early-life shocks rainfall