Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop-Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis?

The author 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. The author 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. The author 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.

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Main Author: Cameron, Lisa A.
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2002-03
Subjects:AGED, ATTRIBUTES, CODES, CRIME, DISTANCE TO SCHOOL, DISTRICTS, DROPOUT RATES, EDUCATION INDICATORS, EMPLOYMENT, ENROLLMENT, ENROLLMENT RATES, ENROLMENT RATE, ENROLMENT RATES, FAMILIES, FAMILY PLANNING, FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS, GENDER, GIRLS, HOUSEHOLDS, JAVA, MEDICINES, MIGRATION, NUTRITION, PAPERS, PARENTS, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, PUBLIC SECTOR, RURAL ECONOMY, SAFETY, SCHOLARSHIPS, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLS, SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SECONDARY STUDENTS, SPORTS, STUDENTS, TEACHERS, VILLAGES, YOUNG PEOPLE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS, DROPOUT RATE, FINANCIAL CRISES, ECONOMIC CRISIS, ENROLMENT RATIO, LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS, IMPACT EVALUATION, HOUSEHOLD DATA, TARGETING, REGRESSION ANALYSIS,
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spelling dig-okr-10986148432024-08-08T17:56:01Z Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop-Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis? Cameron, Lisa A. AGED ATTRIBUTES CODES CRIME DISTANCE TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS DROPOUT RATES EDUCATION INDICATORS EMPLOYMENT ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATES ENROLMENT RATE ENROLMENT RATES FAMILIES FAMILY PLANNING FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS GENDER GIRLS HOUSEHOLDS JAVA MEDICINES MIGRATION NUTRITION PAPERS PARENTS PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PUBLIC SECTOR RURAL ECONOMY SAFETY SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SECONDARY STUDENTS SPORTS STUDENTS TEACHERS VILLAGES YOUNG PEOPLE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS SCHOLARSHIPS DROPOUT RATE FINANCIAL CRISES ECONOMIC CRISIS ENROLMENT RATIO LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IMPACT EVALUATION HOUSEHOLD DATA TARGETING REGRESSION ANALYSIS The author 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. The author 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. The author 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. 2013-08-06T20:34:54Z 2013-08-06T20:34:54Z 2002-03 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/1732225/social-safety-net-scholarships-reduce-drop-out-rates-during-indonesian-economic-crisis https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14843 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No.2800 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, D.C.
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topic AGED
ATTRIBUTES
CODES
CRIME
DISTANCE TO SCHOOL
DISTRICTS
DROPOUT RATES
EDUCATION INDICATORS
EMPLOYMENT
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
ENROLMENT RATE
ENROLMENT RATES
FAMILIES
FAMILY PLANNING
FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
GENDER
GIRLS
HOUSEHOLDS
JAVA
MEDICINES
MIGRATION
NUTRITION
PAPERS
PARENTS
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
PUBLIC SECTOR
RURAL ECONOMY
SAFETY
SCHOLARSHIPS
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SECONDARY STUDENTS
SPORTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
VILLAGES
YOUNG PEOPLE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
SCHOLARSHIPS
DROPOUT RATE
FINANCIAL CRISES
ECONOMIC CRISIS
ENROLMENT RATIO
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS
IMPACT EVALUATION
HOUSEHOLD DATA
TARGETING
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
AGED
ATTRIBUTES
CODES
CRIME
DISTANCE TO SCHOOL
DISTRICTS
DROPOUT RATES
EDUCATION INDICATORS
EMPLOYMENT
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
ENROLMENT RATE
ENROLMENT RATES
FAMILIES
FAMILY PLANNING
FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
GENDER
GIRLS
HOUSEHOLDS
JAVA
MEDICINES
MIGRATION
NUTRITION
PAPERS
PARENTS
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
PUBLIC SECTOR
RURAL ECONOMY
SAFETY
SCHOLARSHIPS
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SECONDARY STUDENTS
SPORTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
VILLAGES
YOUNG PEOPLE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
SCHOLARSHIPS
DROPOUT RATE
FINANCIAL CRISES
ECONOMIC CRISIS
ENROLMENT RATIO
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS
IMPACT EVALUATION
HOUSEHOLD DATA
TARGETING
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
spellingShingle AGED
ATTRIBUTES
CODES
CRIME
DISTANCE TO SCHOOL
DISTRICTS
DROPOUT RATES
EDUCATION INDICATORS
EMPLOYMENT
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
ENROLMENT RATE
ENROLMENT RATES
FAMILIES
FAMILY PLANNING
FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
GENDER
GIRLS
HOUSEHOLDS
JAVA
MEDICINES
MIGRATION
NUTRITION
PAPERS
PARENTS
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
PUBLIC SECTOR
RURAL ECONOMY
SAFETY
SCHOLARSHIPS
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SECONDARY STUDENTS
SPORTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
VILLAGES
YOUNG PEOPLE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
SCHOLARSHIPS
DROPOUT RATE
FINANCIAL CRISES
ECONOMIC CRISIS
ENROLMENT RATIO
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS
IMPACT EVALUATION
HOUSEHOLD DATA
TARGETING
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
AGED
ATTRIBUTES
CODES
CRIME
DISTANCE TO SCHOOL
DISTRICTS
DROPOUT RATES
EDUCATION INDICATORS
EMPLOYMENT
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
ENROLMENT RATE
ENROLMENT RATES
FAMILIES
FAMILY PLANNING
FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
GENDER
GIRLS
HOUSEHOLDS
JAVA
MEDICINES
MIGRATION
NUTRITION
PAPERS
PARENTS
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
PUBLIC SECTOR
RURAL ECONOMY
SAFETY
SCHOLARSHIPS
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SECONDARY STUDENTS
SPORTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
VILLAGES
YOUNG PEOPLE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
SCHOLARSHIPS
DROPOUT RATE
FINANCIAL CRISES
ECONOMIC CRISIS
ENROLMENT RATIO
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS
IMPACT EVALUATION
HOUSEHOLD DATA
TARGETING
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Cameron, Lisa A.
Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop-Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis?
description The author 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. The author 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. The author 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.
topic_facet AGED
ATTRIBUTES
CODES
CRIME
DISTANCE TO SCHOOL
DISTRICTS
DROPOUT RATES
EDUCATION INDICATORS
EMPLOYMENT
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
ENROLMENT RATE
ENROLMENT RATES
FAMILIES
FAMILY PLANNING
FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
GENDER
GIRLS
HOUSEHOLDS
JAVA
MEDICINES
MIGRATION
NUTRITION
PAPERS
PARENTS
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
PUBLIC SECTOR
RURAL ECONOMY
SAFETY
SCHOLARSHIPS
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SECONDARY STUDENTS
SPORTS
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
VILLAGES
YOUNG PEOPLE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
SCHOLARSHIPS
DROPOUT RATE
FINANCIAL CRISES
ECONOMIC CRISIS
ENROLMENT RATIO
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS
IMPACT EVALUATION
HOUSEHOLD DATA
TARGETING
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
author Cameron, Lisa A.
author_facet Cameron, Lisa A.
author_sort Cameron, Lisa A.
title Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop-Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis?
title_short Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop-Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis?
title_full Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop-Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis?
title_fullStr Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop-Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis?
title_full_unstemmed Did Social Safety Net Scholarships Reduce Drop-Out Rates During the Indonesian Economic Crisis?
title_sort did social safety net scholarships reduce drop-out rates during the indonesian economic crisis?
publisher World Bank, Washington, D.C.
publishDate 2002-03
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/1732225/social-safety-net-scholarships-reduce-drop-out-rates-during-indonesian-economic-crisis
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