American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
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Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 6,
no. 2, April 2014
(pp. 105–26)
Abstract
Education ministries worldwide have promoted community engagement through school committees. This paper presents results from a large field experiment testing alternative approaches to strengthen school committees in public schools in Indonesia. Two novel treatments focus on institutional reforms. First, some schools were randomly assigned to implement elections of school committee members. Another treatment facilitated joint planning meetings between the school committee and the village council (linkage). Two more common treatments, grants and training, provided resources to existing school committees. We find that institutional reforms, in particular linkage and elections combined with linkage, are most cost-effective at improving learning.Citation
Pradhan, Menno, Daniel Suryadarma, Amanda Beatty, Maisy Wong, Arya Gaduh, Armida Alisjahbana, and Rima Prama Artha. 2014. "Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6 (2): 105–26. DOI: 10.1257/app.6.2.105Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- H52 National Government Expenditures and Education
- I21 Analysis of Education
- I25 Education and Economic Development
- I28 Education: Government Policy
- O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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