|
|
|
Research
Publications
- The Availability of Child Care Centers, Parental Perceived Accessibility and Life Satisfaction (2010, forthcoming) Review of Economics of the Household, DOI : 10.1007/s11150-009-9071-8 [the working paper version is available as ANU CEPR DP 620, 2009].
- Parental Investment in Children: Differential Pathways for Parental Education and Mental Health (2010, forthcoming) Economic Record [the working paper version is available as ANU CEPR DP 621, 2009].
- Rural-Urban Migration in Indonesia: Study Design and Implementation (2010, forthcoming) in Chris Manning and Xin Meng ed., The Great Migration: Rural-urban migration in China and Indonesia, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
- Can Investment in Household Enterprises Advance Children’s Schooling Attendance?: Consequences of Poverty Alleviation Program in Indonesia (2006), in The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs ed. (2006) Linking Theory and Practice to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor.
- Industry-Specific Productivity and Economic Growth: 1970-98 (2003), with Kyoji Fukao et al., June 2003, Keizai Bunseki, 170, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office of Japan.
Working Papers
- Heterogeneity in the Returns to Investment in Poor Villages[invited resubmission to Economic Development and Cultural Change] ANU CEPR DP 582, 2008
- Under Indonesia's anti-poverty program, IDT, the government provided the same value of lump-sum grants, designated for investment loans, to selected poor villages regardless of population size. Exploiting the variation in per household grant value that is caused by this program design, I estimate the returns to public grants for small business loans among targeted villages. Results show that the returns are heterogeneous. Villages with pre-existing market facilities demonstrate increases in male labor supply, per capita income (PCI) and per capita expenditure (PCE). However, villages not accessible by land exhibit few changes in labor supply or PCI and yet an increase in PCE, particularly on festivals. These results suggest that the returns to investment capital are limited without a basic economic infrastructure.
- Appendix Tables and Data Appendix
- Can Investment in Household Enterprise Advance Children's School Attendance?: Consequences of Poverty Alleviation Program in Indonesia
- Poverty and credit constraints are often thought to prohibit children from attending school and to force them into the workforce. Strengthening adults’ earning capacity is regarded as one method of mitigating this vicious cycle, and substantial resources are poured into loans or grants for investment in household enterprises. However, returns from such investment are not ensured, and households may need income immediately to finance their children's education. This paper investigates how households with children utilize loans from Indonesia's poverty alleviation program and if the program affects children's time allocation behaviours. Results indicate that urban households with the lowest socioeconomic status divert program funds to shift their children from work to school, without investing in household enterprises. The results indicate the potential for policies that provide grants or long-term loans to support disadvantaged children in urban areas.
- Child Care Availability, Quality and Affordability: Are Local Problems Related to Labour Supply? June 2009 [invited resubmission to Economic Record, with Robert Breunig, Xiaodong Gong, and Andrew Weiss]
- We examine whether subjective responses to survey questions about child care availability, quality, and cost, aggregated at the local geographical level, have any explanatory power in models of workforce participation and labour supply. We find that married women who live in areas with more reports of lack of availability, low quality, or costly childcare are more likely to work part-time than full-time. We do not find much effect on the decision to work or not work or much effect in a structural labour supply model of hours. We find no effects for lone parents.
- The Effect of Child Care Centre Openings on Child Care Arrangements and Maternal Labour Supply [under revision]
- This study investigates how new child care centre openings affect child care arrangements and maternal labour supply. The results show that centre openings induce a substitution toward centre-based care, away from home-based and informal care. This is accompanied by reductions in overall non-parental care usage and mothers’ work, suggesting an increase in maternal care duties associated with the shift toward centre-based care. These results imply that, unlike the introduction of subsidised childcare, increasing centre availability only is likely to have a limited impact on maternal labour supply. While it may broaden childcare options, it is likely to disproportionately benefit relatively educated mothers, who demonstrate a particularly strong response. These findings are not driven by endogenous household migration, and are unlikely to be solely caused by endogenous centre entry.
Work in Progress
- What Does It Take to Mitigate Corruption? Evidence from Indonesia [with Daniel Suryadarma]
- Child Care Subsidy and Maternal Labour Supply: Evidence from Australia’s Introduction of Child Care Tax Rebate [with Anu Rammohan and Stephen Whelan]
- Which Children Benefit from Formal Daycare? [with Andrew Leigh]
- Children’s Health and Parental Workforce Participation
- Entry Decisions of Child Care Centers [with Shiko Maruyama]
- Community Environment and Family Engagement in Out-of-Home Activities
- In and Out of Disability Pension: Longitudinal Evidence from Australia
- Do Economic Shocks Intensify Positive Selection of Rural-Urban Migrants? [with Holger Waedt]
|
|
