Daniel Suryadarma
Biographic Data
| ID | 4030589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Suryadarma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Suryadarma |
| SIGNATURE | SURYADARMA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Asian Development Bank Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1530-881X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Low-Cost Low-Touch Information Provision, Parental Involvement, and Student Learning Outcomes
Parental involvement in children’s education is often constrained by limited information, low agency, and weak incentives. This study examines whether a government-led education system can address these barriers through a low-cost, low-touch intervention implemented by public schools and teachers in Kebumen, Indonesia, where teacher capacity is moderate but learning outcomes have stagnated. The intervention comprised three components: teachers pr…
Effect of Growing Up Poor on Labor Market Outcomes
We estimate the long‐term impact of child poverty on adult labour market outcomes in Indonesia, a middle‐income country. Our instrumental variable estimation shows that a child who lived in a poor family when aged between eight and 17 years old suffers from an 87% earnings penalty as adults relative to a child who did not grow up in a poor family. The direct effect remains large after we account for a large set of mediators. Depending on the set …
Improving the quality of basic education in Asean–Emerging challenges and reforms
What Happens to the Learning Outcomes of Left‐Behind Children When Parents are Away? Evidence From Four Pacific Island Countries
Parentsʼ migration that leaves their children behind can have a large influence on their children. We explore the relationship between parental migration and learning outcomes of left‐behind children aged 7–14 in Pacific Island Economies, particularly Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, and Tonga, comparing children who live without at least one parent due to migration and children who live with both parents. We use propensity score matching on the Multiple I…
Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions
Learning disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic
We study children’s access to remote learning when schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and their parents’ perceptions about learning progress in seven Southeast Asian countries. This is the first regional analysis to systematically document students’ access to remote learning based on survey data and to investigate how school closures and remote learning access affected children’s learning progress. The results are based on survey re…
Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations
Cheating reduces the signaling value of examinations. It also shifts the focus of teachers and students away from learning. Combating widespread cheating is difficult as students, teachers, and bureaucrats all benefit from high reported grades. We evaluate the impact of computer-based testing (CBT), an at-scale policy implemented by the Indonesian government to reduce widespread cheating in the national examinations. Exploiting the phased roll-ou…
Do short-term unconditional cash transfers change behaviour and preferences? evidence from Indonesia
Short-term unconditional cash transfers are used as a temporary mitigation strategy during adverse economic shocks. They can however, cause adverse unintended impacts on behaviour and preferences. We estimate the effect of receiving short-term unconditional cash transfers on behaviour, risk aversion, and intertemporal choice in Indonesia. The country first introduced the program in 2005 and continues to use it whenever adverse economic shocks occ…
Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labor market outcomes in an emerging economy
Greater female labor market participation benefits not only women's empowerment and the well-being of their families, but also the economy as a whole. Yet the labor force participation of women in developing countries is relatively stagnant, even with higher levels of economic development and better educational attainment. Women are also more likely to work in the informal sector and unskilled jobs. The arrival of the internet and the subsequent …
Introduction to the special issue on social and economic impacts of online marketplaces on women in Asia
Online marketplaces are growing rapidly globally. They have the potential to significantly benefit women; however, these benefits are not guaranteed. A lack of information on the benefits of or how to participate in online marketplaces could mean womenʼs participation is at an inefficiently low level. Participation could also bring about unintended consequences. We introduce this special issue of Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies on the social …
Foundational mathematics and reading skills of Filipino students over a generation
Children around the world largely rely on the formal education system to teach them foundational mathematics and reading skills. The inability of an education system to do so may indicate it has structural constraints. In this paper, we use three rounds of a nationally representative government-run household survey to examine trends in the mastery of foundational mathematics and reading skills among grades 4–10 students between 2003 and 2019 in t…
Schooling progress, learning reversal
We examine the relationship between schooling completed and mathematics learning from 2000 to 2014 by developing learning profiles for Indonesia. Using nearly-nationally representative survey data, we find a large gap between students' ability and standards set by the national curriculum. Learning declined over 14 years, a loss of a fourth of a standard deviation. To put this loss in context, the average child in grade 7 in 2014 achieved the same…
Estimating the Impact of Covid-19 on Poverty in Indonesia
Covid-19 has infected and will continue to infect millions of people all over the world. The economic impact is predicted to be large and millions of people will be pushed into poverty. In this paper, we estimate the impact of Covid-19 on poverty in Indonesia. The economic impact is expected to be severe, reducing the economic growth rate projected for 2020 from about 5% to between 4.2% and –3.5%. We find that under the best-case scenario, the po…
Fertility and the health of children in Indonesia
The Consequences of Child Market Work on the Growth of Human Capital
The Impact of Childhood Migration on Educational Attainment
This paper estimates the effect of migrating permanently as a child from a rural area to an urban area; focusing on long-term educational attainment in Indonesia. We conduct a household survey specifically tailored to collect data on urban–rural migrants in four major migrant destination cities in Indonesia, and merge the data with a nationally representative survey to create a dataset that contains migrants in urban areas and non-migrants in rur…
How corruption diminishes the effectiveness of public spending on education in Indonesia
This paper takes advantage of a regional corruption measure to assess the impact of corruption on the effectiveness of public spending in the education sector in Indonesia, one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Two sets of outcomes are considered: school enrolment rates and school performance in national examinations. Public spending appears to have a negligible effect on school enrolment in highly corrupt regions, but a statistically s…
Survey of recent developments
Considerable media criticism has been directed recently at parliamentarians' enthusiasm for costly overseas 'working visits' with little obvious benefit to the nation, and at their plans for a new parliamentary building. The criticism may not be fully justified, especially in relation to the latter, but is symptomatic of a high level of cynicism towards the parliament. Many of its members have been embroiled in corruption, and it is performing po…
Traditional food traders in developing countries and competition from supermarkets
The effects of location and sectoral components of economic growth on poverty
Predicting Consumption Poverty using Non-Consumption Indicators
The effects of location and sectoral components of economic growth on poverty
Estimating the Impact of Covid-19 on Poverty in Indonesia
Covid-19 has infected and will continue to infect millions of people all over the world. The economic impact is predicted to be large and millions of people will be pushed into poverty. In this paper, we estimate the impact of Covid-19 on poverty in Indonesia. The economic impact is expected to be severe, reducing the economic growth rate projected for 2020 from about 5% to between 4.2% and –3.5%. We find that under the best-case scenario, the po…
Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labor market outcomes in an emerging economy
Greater female labor market participation benefits not only women's empowerment and the well-being of their families, but also the economy as a whole. Yet the labor force participation of women in developing countries is relatively stagnant, even with higher levels of economic development and better educational attainment. Women are also more likely to work in the informal sector and unskilled jobs. The arrival of the internet and the subsequent …
The Impact of Childhood Migration on Educational Attainment
This paper estimates the effect of migrating permanently as a child from a rural area to an urban area; focusing on long-term educational attainment in Indonesia. We conduct a household survey specifically tailored to collect data on urban–rural migrants in four major migrant destination cities in Indonesia, and merge the data with a nationally representative survey to create a dataset that contains migrants in urban areas and non-migrants in rur…
How corruption diminishes the effectiveness of public spending on education in Indonesia
This paper takes advantage of a regional corruption measure to assess the impact of corruption on the effectiveness of public spending in the education sector in Indonesia, one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Two sets of outcomes are considered: school enrolment rates and school performance in national examinations. Public spending appears to have a negligible effect on school enrolment in highly corrupt regions, but a statistically s…
Traditional food traders in developing countries and competition from supermarkets
Predicting Consumption Poverty using Non-Consumption Indicators
The Consequences of Child Market Work on the Growth of Human Capital
Improving the quality of basic education in Asean–Emerging challenges and reforms
Predicting Consumption Poverty using Non-Consumption Indicators
The effects of location and sectoral components of economic growth on poverty
Traditional food traders in developing countries and competition from supermarkets
Survey of recent developments
Considerable media criticism has been directed recently at parliamentarians' enthusiasm for costly overseas 'working visits' with little obvious benefit to the nation, and at their plans for a new parliamentary building. The criticism may not be fully justified, especially in relation to the latter, but is symptomatic of a high level of cynicism towards the parliament. Many of its members have been embroiled in corruption, and it is performing po…
How corruption diminishes the effectiveness of public spending on education in Indonesia
This paper takes advantage of a regional corruption measure to assess the impact of corruption on the effectiveness of public spending in the education sector in Indonesia, one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Two sets of outcomes are considered: school enrolment rates and school performance in national examinations. Public spending appears to have a negligible effect on school enrolment in highly corrupt regions, but a statistically s…
The Impact of Childhood Migration on Educational Attainment
This paper estimates the effect of migrating permanently as a child from a rural area to an urban area; focusing on long-term educational attainment in Indonesia. We conduct a household survey specifically tailored to collect data on urban–rural migrants in four major migrant destination cities in Indonesia, and merge the data with a nationally representative survey to create a dataset that contains migrants in urban areas and non-migrants in rur…
The Consequences of Child Market Work on the Growth of Human Capital
Fertility and the health of children in Indonesia
Estimating the Impact of Covid-19 on Poverty in Indonesia
Covid-19 has infected and will continue to infect millions of people all over the world. The economic impact is predicted to be large and millions of people will be pushed into poverty. In this paper, we estimate the impact of Covid-19 on poverty in Indonesia. The economic impact is expected to be severe, reducing the economic growth rate projected for 2020 from about 5% to between 4.2% and –3.5%. We find that under the best-case scenario, the po…
Schooling progress, learning reversal
We examine the relationship between schooling completed and mathematics learning from 2000 to 2014 by developing learning profiles for Indonesia. Using nearly-nationally representative survey data, we find a large gap between students' ability and standards set by the national curriculum. Learning declined over 14 years, a loss of a fourth of a standard deviation. To put this loss in context, the average child in grade 7 in 2014 achieved the same…
Introduction to the special issue on social and economic impacts of online marketplaces on women in Asia
Online marketplaces are growing rapidly globally. They have the potential to significantly benefit women; however, these benefits are not guaranteed. A lack of information on the benefits of or how to participate in online marketplaces could mean womenʼs participation is at an inefficiently low level. Participation could also bring about unintended consequences. We introduce this special issue of Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies on the social …
Foundational mathematics and reading skills of Filipino students over a generation
Children around the world largely rely on the formal education system to teach them foundational mathematics and reading skills. The inability of an education system to do so may indicate it has structural constraints. In this paper, we use three rounds of a nationally representative government-run household survey to examine trends in the mastery of foundational mathematics and reading skills among grades 4–10 students between 2003 and 2019 in t…
Do short-term unconditional cash transfers change behaviour and preferences? evidence from Indonesia
Short-term unconditional cash transfers are used as a temporary mitigation strategy during adverse economic shocks. They can however, cause adverse unintended impacts on behaviour and preferences. We estimate the effect of receiving short-term unconditional cash transfers on behaviour, risk aversion, and intertemporal choice in Indonesia. The country first introduced the program in 2005 and continues to use it whenever adverse economic shocks occ…
Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labor market outcomes in an emerging economy
Greater female labor market participation benefits not only women's empowerment and the well-being of their families, but also the economy as a whole. Yet the labor force participation of women in developing countries is relatively stagnant, even with higher levels of economic development and better educational attainment. Women are also more likely to work in the informal sector and unskilled jobs. The arrival of the internet and the subsequent …
Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions
Learning disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic
We study children’s access to remote learning when schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and their parents’ perceptions about learning progress in seven Southeast Asian countries. This is the first regional analysis to systematically document students’ access to remote learning based on survey data and to investigate how school closures and remote learning access affected children’s learning progress. The results are based on survey re…
Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations
Cheating reduces the signaling value of examinations. It also shifts the focus of teachers and students away from learning. Combating widespread cheating is difficult as students, teachers, and bureaucrats all benefit from high reported grades. We evaluate the impact of computer-based testing (CBT), an at-scale policy implemented by the Indonesian government to reduce widespread cheating in the national examinations. Exploiting the phased roll-ou…
Effect of Growing Up Poor on Labor Market Outcomes
We estimate the long‐term impact of child poverty on adult labour market outcomes in Indonesia, a middle‐income country. Our instrumental variable estimation shows that a child who lived in a poor family when aged between eight and 17 years old suffers from an 87% earnings penalty as adults relative to a child who did not grow up in a poor family. The direct effect remains large after we account for a large set of mediators. Depending on the set …
Improving the quality of basic education in Asean–Emerging challenges and reforms
What Happens to the Learning Outcomes of Left‐Behind Children When Parents are Away? Evidence From Four Pacific Island Countries
Parentsʼ migration that leaves their children behind can have a large influence on their children. We explore the relationship between parental migration and learning outcomes of left‐behind children aged 7–14 in Pacific Island Economies, particularly Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, and Tonga, comparing children who live without at least one parent due to migration and children who live with both parents. We use propensity score matching on the Multiple I…
Low-Cost Low-Touch Information Provision, Parental Involvement, and Student Learning Outcomes
Parental involvement in children’s education is often constrained by limited information, low agency, and weak incentives. This study examines whether a government-led education system can address these barriers through a low-cost, low-touch intervention implemented by public schools and teachers in Kebumen, Indonesia, where teacher capacity is moderate but learning outcomes have stagnated. The intervention comprised three components: teachers pr…
Economics (15 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Demographic economics (4 works)