Latest Publications

Assessment of Policies to Improve Teacher Quality and Reduce Teacher Absenteeism

December, 2013 | Asep Suryahadi, Prio Sambodho
This paper assesses the policies that are in place to improve teachers’ classroom qualifications and competencies, as well as the efforts being made to ensure that teachers are not absent from teaching their classes.

Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Households in Pekalongan City

December, 2013 | Asri Yusrina, Akhmadi
It provides information about household members’ characteristics and their living condition but does not include an instrument about income or expenditure of households

2012 Annual Report

December, 2013 | The SMERU Research Institute

Child Poverty and Social Protection Conference

December, 2013 | The SMERU Research Institute

It’s All in the Timing: Household Expenditure and Labor Supply Responses to Unconditional Cash Transfers

December, 2013 | Samuel Bazzi, Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi
This paper considers (i) how the timing of transfers affects household expenditure and labor supply responses, and (ii) how household expectations shape our interpretation of those responses. We study these issues in the context of a short-term program that provided quarterly unconditional transfers of US$30 to over 19 million households in Indonesia.