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This paper aims at investigating the effect of local government policy on the decision of secondary school enrollment in Indonesia. It combines various datasets such as Indonesia Family Life Survey based on the household and community survey, village survey (PODES), and district data level for statistical analysis. By using a probit model, this study finds that the local government policy on education, such as pupil-to-class room ratio and education expenditure per population in secondary school age, is found to have significant impact on the parents’ decision to enroll their children in the school. Further estimation on the interaction of local government policy with female child shows that only the number of public secondary school per population variable has low impact on secondary school enrollment decision.
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In this paper, since the implementation of education law 20/2003 and local government law 32/2004 reveals that district governments are responsible for managing the primary and secondary education levels: schools and teachers. We classify the education quality and facilities into local government policies.
Excluding municipals of DKI Jakarta province, the capital of Indonesia, due to non-autonomous municipal.
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Prasetyia, F. The role of local government policy on secondary school enrolment decision in Indonesia. Eurasian Econ Rev 9, 139–172 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40822-018-0101-9
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