Replication data for: Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Menno Pradhan; Daniel Suryadarma; Amanda Beatty; Maisy Wong; Arya Gaduh; Armida Alisjahbana; Rima Prama Artha

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Pradhan, Menno, Suryadarma, Daniel, Beatty, Amanda, Wong, Maisy, Gaduh, Arya, Alisjahbana, Armida, and Artha, Rima Prama. Replication data for: Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113883V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Scope of Project

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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