Intra-household Differences in Education and Home Leaving in Indonesia

This paper investigates some of the underlying factors determining the probability of household division, defined here as the event when an adult leaves his or her original household, utilizing data from two waves of the IFLS (IFLS1-1993 and IFLS3-2000). Borrowing the empirical framework suggested b...

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Published in:ASEAN economic bulletin 2006-04, Vol.23 (1), p.75-97, Article AE23-1f
Main Author: Witoelar, Firman
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult education
Age
Children
Collective households
Comparative analysis
Consumption
Data analysis
Decision making
Differences
Economic aspects
Economic models
Empirical research
Employment
Families & family life
Higher education
Households
Indonesia
Intergenerational relationships
Joint family
Level of education
Living arrangements
Longitudinal studies
Marriage
Multivariate analysis
Parents
Parents & parenting
Probability
Public goods
Regional studies
Rural areas
Rural studies
Schooling
Social aspects
Studies
Womens studies
Young adults
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Summary:This paper investigates some of the underlying factors determining the probability of household division, defined here as the event when an adult leaves his or her original household, utilizing data from two waves of the IFLS (IFLS1-1993 and IFLS3-2000). Borrowing the empirical framework suggested by Foster and Rosenzweig (2002), I estimate the probability of household division by the subsequent waves of the survey, using household variables from an earlier wave as the explanatory variables. The findings suggest that education variables play an important albeit limited role in determining household division. There is evidence that higher education of the household head is associated with lower propensity of an adult household member to leave. On the other hand, higher maximum years of schooling of other members in the household are associated with higher probability of household division. These results, along with the finding showing that rural households are more likely to divide, indicate that household division in Indonesia may largely be associated with the mobility of young, more educated members from rural areas. While the empirical framework is based on a collective household model, the results can also be explained within the context of unitary household model.
ISSN:0217-4472
2339-5095
1793-2831
2339-5206
DOI:10.1355/AE23-1F