{"title":"The Impact of School Attendance on Child Working: Case from Indonesian School Operational Assistance","authors":"Karnia Nur Aniza","doi":"10.36574/jpp.v7i1.408","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Educational subsidies are increasing school attendance, but the impact on the child’s working participation is vague. After running for five years, the government of Indonesia changed the regulation of Bantuan Operasional Sekolah (the BOS program or school operational assistance) to eliminate school fees for all elementary and junior secondary schools in 2009. This study intends to estimate the impact of hours of school attendance on children working using the 2009 regulation BOS program as an instrument. The estimation uses data from the fourth and fifth Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) with Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (FRDD) as methodology. The result presents that the children who benefited from the 2009 regulation BOS program spent more hours attending school than non-beneficiaries. However, the increase in school attendance is increasing the time allocation for income-generating and household work, supporting the idea that working and schooling are not perfectly substitutable.","PeriodicalId":209567,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Perencanaan Pembangunan: The Indonesian Journal of Development Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Jurnal Perencanaan Pembangunan: The Indonesian Journal of Development Planning","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.36574/jpp.v7i1.408","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Educational subsidies are increasing school attendance, but the impact on the child’s working participation is vague. After running for five years, the government of Indonesia changed the regulation of Bantuan Operasional Sekolah (the BOS program or school operational assistance) to eliminate school fees for all elementary and junior secondary schools in 2009. This study intends to estimate the impact of hours of school attendance on children working using the 2009 regulation BOS program as an instrument. The estimation uses data from the fourth and fifth Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) with Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (FRDD) as methodology. The result presents that the children who benefited from the 2009 regulation BOS program spent more hours attending school than non-beneficiaries. However, the increase in school attendance is increasing the time allocation for income-generating and household work, supporting the idea that working and schooling are not perfectly substitutable.
教育补贴提高了入学率,但对儿童工作参与率的影响是模糊的。在运行了五年之后,印尼政府于2009年修改了Bantuan operational Sekolah (BOS项目或学校运营援助)的规定,取消了所有小学和初中的学费。本研究拟以2009年规定的BOS计划为工具,评估上学时数对儿童工作的影响。该估计使用了第四和第五次印度尼西亚家庭生活调查(IFLS)的数据,采用模糊回归不连续设计(FRDD)作为方法。结果表明,受益于2009年监管BOS计划的儿童比未受益的儿童上学时间更长。然而,上学人数的增加增加了用于创收和家务劳动的时间分配,这支持了工作和上学并不是完全可以替代的观点。