Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases in the level of education of women. Despite this development female labor force participation rates have remained roughly constant throughout this period. This paper explores the...

‘Poverty and the Labour Market in Indonesia: Employment Trends across the Wealth Distribution', is among Indonesia's first papers on the relationship between poverty and the labour market. It provides a detailed analysis of employment indicators (labour force participation rates, hours worked,...

This study investigates the impact of Indonesia’s flagship conditional cash trans- fer (CCT) program—PKH—on violent crime. Exploiting data from a randomized controlled trial and administrative data from the staggered nationwide program roll-out in combination with different causal...