Download or read book An Analysis of the Role of Social Safety Net Scholarships in Reducing School Drop Out During the Indonesian Economic Crisis written by Lisa A. Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses regression and matching techniques to evaluate Indonesia's Social Safety Net Scholarships Program. The scholarships program was developed to try and prevent large numbers of children from dropping out of school as a result of the Asian crisis. The expectation was that many families would find it difficult to keep their children in school and drop out rates would be high like they were during the 1980's recession. Drop-outs however have not increased markedly and enrollment rates have remained relatively steady. This paper examines the role played by the scholarship program in producing this result. The scholarships were found to have been effective in reducing dropouts at the lower secondary school level by about 2.4 percentage points but had no discernible impact at the primary and upper secondary school levels. We also examine how well the program adhered to its documented targeting design and how effective this design was in reaching the poor. The targeting criteria appear to have been followed quite closely but this did not prevent some households with high reported per capita expenditures receiving the scholarship.
Download or read book An Analysis of the Role of Social Safety Net Scholarships in Reducing School Drop out During the Indonesian Economic Crisis written by Lisa Ann Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of the Role of Social Safety Net Scholarship in Reducing School Drop out During the Indonesian Economic Crisis written by Lisa A. Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis written by Lisa A. Cameron and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses regression and matching techniques to evaluate Indonesia's Social Safety Net Scholarships Program. The program aimed to prevent large numbers of children from dropping out of school as a result of the Asian economic crisis of 1998. It was expected that families would find it difficult to keep their children in school and that dropout rates would be high, as they were during the recession of the 1980s. However, dropout rates did not increase markedly, and enrollment rates have remained relatively steady. This paper examines the role played by the scholarship program in producing this result. Data were drawn from a national household survey of 100 rural villages across Indonesia, conducted in 1994 and 5 times in 1997-99. The scholarships were found to have been effective in reducing dropouts at the lower secondary school level by about three percentage points but had no discernable impact at the primary and upper secondary school levels. Analyses also examined how well the program adhered to its documented targeting design and how effective this design was in reaching the poor. The targeting criteria appear to have been followed quite closely, but this did not prevent some households with higher reported per-capita expenditures from receiving the scholarship. (Contains 23 references and data tables and figures.) (Author/SV)
Download or read book Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis written by Lisa A. Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary evidence favors focusing safety net scholarships - designed to reduce dropout rates during an economic crisis - on lower secondary schools, continuing to target children (especially older students) from large families, scaling back scholarships to private schools at the lower secondary level, or targeting the households hurt most by the crisis. Cameron uses regression and matching techniques to evaluate Indonesia's Social Safety Net Scholarships Program, which was developed to keep large numbers of children from dropping out of school as a result of the Asian crisis. It was expected that many families would find it difficult to keep their children in school and that dropout rates would be high, as they were during a recession in the 1980s. But dropouts did not increase markedly and enrollment rates remained relatively steady. Cameron examines the role the scholarship program played in producing this result. She found the scholarships to have been effective in reducing dropouts in the lower secondary school (where students are more susceptible to dropping out) by about 3 percentage points. They had no discernible impact in primary and upper secondary schools.Cameron also examines how well the program adhered to its documented targeting design and how effective that design was in reaching the poor. Committees that allocated the scholarships followed the criteria diligently, but a significant percentage of scholarships did go to students from households with high reported per capita expenditures, if household expenditure data are reliable.It is unclear how targeting can be improved, giving the scarcity of accurate local household data in most countries. Using local monitoring could help but then monitoring for accountability would be more difficult. Preliminary evidence favors focusing safety net scholarships - designed to reduce dropout rates during an economic crisis - on lower secondary schools, continuing to target children (especially older students) from large families, scaling back scholarships to private schools at the lower secondary level, or targeting the households hurt most by the crisis.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to study the welfare impact of the East Asian crisis.
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Download or read book Conditional Cash Transfers written by Ariel Fiszbein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include enrolling children into public schools, getting regular check-ups at the doctor's office, receiving vaccinations, or the like. They have been hailed as a way of reducing inequality and helping households break out of a vicious cycle whereby poverty is transmitted from one generation to another. Do these and other claims make sense? Are they supported by the available empirical evidence? This volume seeks to answer these and other related questions. Specifically, it lays out a conceptual framework for thinking about the economic rationale for CCTs; it reviews the very rich evidence that has accumulated on CCTs; it discusses how the conceptual framework and the evidence on impacts should inform the design of CCT programs in practice; and it discusses how CCTs fit in the context of broader social policies. The authors show that there is considerable evidence that CCTs have improved the lives of poor people and argue that conditional cash transfers have been an effective way of redistributing income to the poor. They also recognize that even the best-designed and managed CCT cannot fulfill all of the needs of a comprehensive social protection system. They therefore need to be complemented with other interventions, such as workfare or employment programs, and social pensions.
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Download or read book Safety Net Programs and Poverty Reduction written by K. Subbarao and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for social safety nets has become a key component of poverty reduction strategies. Over the past three decades several developing countries have launched a variety of programs, including cash transfers, subsidies in-kind, public works, and income-generation programs. However, there is little guidance on appropriate program design, and few studies have synthesized the lessons from widely differing country experiences. This report fills that gap. It reviews the conceptual issues in the choice of programs, synthesizes cross-country experience, and analyzes how country- and region-specific constraints can explain why different approaches are successful in different countries.
