Throughout the past eighteen months there has been understandable interest - and considerable debate - about the impact of the crisis on poverty in Indonesia. Many claims and counter claims have been made in the press and elsewhere which have been the cause of some confusion. In this issue of our newsletter we present a concise summary from our Data Analysis Unit which charts the course of the poverty rate from a point well before the crisis erupted in late 1997 until August of last year.
A Rapid Appraisal of The PKPS-BBM Education Sector School Operational Assistance (BOS)
Research Team
Coordinator:
Widjajanti I. Suharyo
Advisor:
Sudarno Sumarto
Researchers:
Hastuti, Syaikhu Usman, Nina Toyamah, Bambang Sulaksono, Sri Budiyati, Wenefrida Dwi Widyanti, Meuthia Rosfadhila, R. Justin Sodo, Sami Bazzi
When Teachers are Absent: Where do They Go and What is the Impact on Students?
ABSTRACT
The Determinants of Student Performance in Indonesian Public Primary Schools: The Role of Teachers and Schools
In this paper we investigate the determinants of student performance in mathematics and dictation tests among fourth-grade school children in Indonesia. We use a unique dataset of school and student information that was collected in a nationally representative survey of 110 public schools in 8 Indonesian provinces in 2003. Using an OLS regression technique that compensates for heteroskedasticity, we conduct separate sets of student-level regressions for three performance variables: math scores, dictation scores and combined scores.