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The paper measures the effect of child market work on the long-term growth of human capital, focusing on the output of the human capital production: mathematics skills, cognitive skills, pulmonary function, and educational attainment. Our full sample is drawn from a rich longitudinal dataset Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS).
This paper attempts to explore deprivations experienced by children. Utilizing national survey dataset collected by BPS and the MODA methodology developed by UNICEF, it shows that children may or may not suffer from deprivation in many dimensions and monetary poverty at the same time. One of the advantages of the MODA approach is the child-focused analysis.
This study aims to gain a deep understanding of the characteristics of poverty and disparities experienced by children living in poor households in urban areas, and factors affecting their experience, seen from the perspective of the children.
The objective of this study is to obtain a description of child well-being, caregiving arrangements, and child caregiving practices in both poor migrant and non-migrant families in two migrant sending districts, namely Kabupaten Banyumas and Kabupaten Lombok Tengah. This description is followed by an explanation of government and community support, especially for poor children who were left by their migrant mothers.
This chapter reviews social security development in Indonesia, which has evolved from providing very little in its early years, to a system that benefited only formal sector workers, to universal coverage. There are two important milestones in this development. First, starting in the mid-1960s, the New Order government gradually developed various social security schemes, albeit limited to the formal sector.
