a column by Richard Akresh, Daniel Halim and Marieke Kleemans for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Does investment in schools promote higher educational attainment—and do the effects improve students’ later lives and those of the next generation?
This column examines the impact of over 61,000 primary schools built by the Indonesian government between 1973 and 1979, almost doubling the number in the country. The evidence shows that the men and women who accessed education provided by the construction programme benefited from significant improvements in their educational and later life outcomes. So too did their children.
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