The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children's Education and Health: Evidence from Indonesia

Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep

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“…This was the case even when the authors controlled for changes in household economic status. Suryadarma et al (2009) found a similar result in the case of orphans in Indonesia, using a panel data set to show that parental death adversely affected school enrolment. Likewise, Gertler et al (2004) reported that a child whose parent had recently died was, on average, twice as likely to drop out as a child with living parents.…”

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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Glick

Sahn

Walker³

2011

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 8731 December 2014 ABSTRACT Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar 1This paper measured the extent to which households in Madagascar adjust children's school attendance in order to cope with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 years of recall data on school attendance and household shocks. We found that the probability of a child dropping out of school increased significantly when the household experienced an illness, death or asset shock. We proposed a test to distinguish whether the impact of shocks on school attendance could be attributed to credit constraints, labour market rigidities, or a combination of the two.The results of the test suggested that credit constraints, rather than labour market rigidities, explain the inability of households in Madagascar to keep their children in school during times of economic distress.JEL Classification: I25, J22, D13, E24

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Section: Shocks and Schooling Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 60%

Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Glick

Sahn

Walker³

2011

SSRN Journal

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“…This is the case even when controlling for changes in household economic status. Similarly, Suryadarma, Pakpahan and Suryahadi () found a similar result for Indonesia, using a panel data set to show that parental death adversely affected school enrolment. Likewise, Gertler, Levine and Ames () report that a child whose parent has recently died is, on average, twice as likely to drop out as a child with living parents.…”

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Household Shocks and Education Investments in Madagascar

2016

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This paper investigates the impact of exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply on children's school attendance in Madagascar. The analysis uses a unique data set with 10 years of recall data on school attendance and household shocks. We find that the probability of a child dropping out of school increases significantly when the household experiences an illness, death or asset shock. We propose a test to distinguish whether the impact of shocks on school attendance can be attributed to credit constraints, labour market rigidities, or a combination of the two. The results suggest that credit constraints, rather than labour market rigidities, explain the inability of households in Madagascar to keep their children in school during times of economic stress.

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“…However, a deep entrenched Indonesian social mindset that orphanages can care better for children than poor parents (Anasiru 2011) has encouraged growth in orphanages and Islamic boarding houses promising education and a better life. This is thought to have further contributed to a rise in the gift to orphanages (Suryadarma et al 2009;Wanat et al 2010). The growth in Indonesia's orphanages is not subsiding.…”

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Indonesia’s Orphanage Trade: Islamic Philanthropy’s Good Intentions, Some Not So Good Outcomes

McLaren

Qonita

2019

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In 2011, Indonesia commenced an orphanage deinstitutionalization strategy known as the paradigm change in child protection. The strategy responded to human rights protocols emphasizing institutional care of children as a last resort. Orphanage based social workers were trained by the Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA) to implement the paradigm change, increase parenting capacity and strengthen local supports to enable children’s reunification with their families. The paradigm change intended to reduce children coming into institutional care; however, we found a persistent growth of non-orphaned children being recruited to orphanages since 2011 and more orphanages being built to accommodate them. Islamic philanthropic activities were identified as supporting and contributing growth to the orphanage trade. Despite the paradigm change, social workers were financially incentivization to recruit children to orphanages. There were no similar incentives to deinstitutionalize them. This paper uses selective quotes from the larger study, of social workers interviewed, to assist with theorizing the high potential of Islamic philanthropy in supporting Indonesia’s growing orphan trade. We propose that philanthropy, including where there are good faith and good intentions, may be contributing to some not so good outcomes, including trafficking and modern-day slavery.

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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children's Education and Health: Evidence from Indonesia

Cited by 6 publications

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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Household Shocks and Education Investments in Madagascar

Indonesia’s Orphanage Trade: Islamic Philanthropy’s Good Intentions, Some Not So Good Outcomes

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