Elan Satriawan

• PhD
• Universitas Gadjah Mada

The dualistic market model suggests that self-employment in developing countries should be seen as a survival strategy that is taken by those who are locked out of the formal labour market rather than as a manifestation of entrepreneurial spirit. This study aims to provide empirical evidences on the nature of self-employment in Indonesia, and wheth...

The advancement in information and communication technology (ICT), particularly the internet, has positively affected business performance, including for micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Human capital, primarily owners' education, is one of the substantial factors influencing the capabilities of ICT utilisation. This study aims to examine the po...

We compare how in-kind food assistance and an electronic voucher-based program affect the delivery of aid in practice. The Government of Indonesia randomized across 105 districts the transition from in-kind rice to approximately equivalent electronic vouchers redeemable for rice and eggs at a network of private agents. Targeted households received...

Employing a clustered RCT this paper examines the short-term impact of a 12-month mHealth BCC campaign on health practices & outcomes among CCT beneficiaries in Indonesia. Our analysis reveals that the intervention led to substantial improvements in maternal health behavior (postnatal care, child vaccinations, hygiene practices) & outcomes (anemia...

Conditional cash transfers provide income and promote human capital investments. Yet evaluating their longitudinal impacts is hard, as most experimental evaluations treat control locations after a few years. We examine such impacts in Indonesia after six years, where the program rollout left the experiment largely intact. We find static effects on...

During his first presidential term, Joko Widodo increased expenditure on, and the coverage of, several social protection policies, including the conditional cash transfer program. These policies began in the aftermath of the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis and have proliferated in recent years. This Survey will examine these policies, paying particu...

Food prices regularly change due to various factors such as the policy on imports. This paper analyzes the impact of changes in food prices including rice, red onions, and garlic, on farmers’ welfare. The Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) was used to estimate the demand function for food commodities, and the Compensating Variation (CV)...

We evaluate household participation in the Indonesian Raskin program, a national rice price subsidy program for the poor. Using a household panel from the 2000 and 2007 rounds of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), we evaluate program participation over the duration of the year prior to the 2007 survey using four different measures of partici...

This paper aims to analyze the effect of various idiosyncratic shocks against child labor, working hours of children and school participation based on gender. Also, the role of the assets held by households as one of the coping strategies to mitigate the effects of such shocks. The results of random effect probit technique show that girls are more...

Many countries are currently trying to achieve universal health coverage. One of the challenges in doing so is to expand the use of health insurance among those working in the informal sector. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of health insurance on healthcare utilization. This study used secondary data from the Indonesian national socioecono...

Background: One of the challenges in the effort to expand the coverage of national health insurance is covering the informal sectors. The large proportion of informal sectors is a characteristic of developing countries, including Indonesia. Information about the determinants of health insurance ownership is an important part of the efforts to expan...

This study aims to investigate the role of Indonesia's Social Safety Net Scholarships Program to the school dropout rates in basic education in Indonesia using Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and the Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis. Randomized controlled trials often suffer from two major complications, i.e., noncompliance and missing outcom...

Public transfers in the form of financial assistance to poor households have a positive impact on recipient’s and neighboring households. However, the effect of public transfers on social participation so far has not been empirically supported. This study aimed evaluating the impact of public transfers (direct cash assistance, BLT) on household par...

Background: Informal sector workers still dominate the workforce in Indonesia. BPS data per August 2012 stated that 60.14% of workers in Indonesia’s status as workers in the informal sector. The informal workers is potential members of national health insurance. In achieving Universal Health Coverage, the health BPJS extend its scope beginning in J...

Background: Sizable out of pocket payment for health care make a hardship financing for many families and this will lead to a catastrophic expenditure. To pay health services that exceed the financial capacity of households would aggravate the economic stability of the household, which in economic terms is called catastrophic expenditure. When Hous...

Measuring social inequalities in health is common; however, research examining inequalities in child cognitive function is more limited. We investigated household expenditure-related inequality in children's cognitive function in Indonesia in 2000 and 2007, the contributors to inequality in both time periods, and changes in the contributors to cogn...

Background: This paper presents the study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a supplementary matched control group. The aim of the trial is to evaluate a community-based early education and development program launched by the Government of Indonesia. The program was developed in collaboration with the World Ban...

This paper exploits heterogeneity in program exposure to evaluate the effectiveness of a supplementary feeding program implemented in the wake of the 1997-1998 economic crises in Indonesia. The explicit aim of the program was to protect the nutritional status of infants and young children from adverse effects of the crisis. The use of heterogeneity...

This study explores how human capital affects farm household earnings using two tools to refine measurement of human capital effects. First, it employs a two-sector model to allow the allocation of family labor between farm and nonfarm activities. Second, it accounts for village fixed effects to evaluate whether results from panel data differ meani...

This paper evaluates ‘an almost universally distributed’ supplementary feeding program. The use of simple binary program may not reveal sufficient variation to identify program effect. So, taking advantage from detailed information on program implementation in the data set, this paper uses proportion of child’s life exposed to the program to rev...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of supplementary food program that was aimed to help the children to maintain their health when facing the 1997/98 economic crisis in Indonesia. To do so we apply difference-in-difference method for two different kinds of sample: unmatched and matched one. The results from unmatched (using pooled OLS and fixed...

This study explores how human capital affects farm household earnings using two tools to refine measurement of human capital effects. First, it employs a two-sector model to allow the allocation of family labor between farm and non-farm activities. Second, it accounts for village fixed effects to evaluate whether results from panel data differ mean...

One of the key barriers limiting access to health services is financial: people tend not to seek care out of fear they may not be able to afford it. By removing financial barriers to health care, one would expect to find an increase in utilization. Parallel with the efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals, Indonesia’s first steps toward u...