Heterogeneity in the Returns to Investment in Poor Villages

Chikako Yamauchi

No 582, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Abstract: Under Indonesia's anti-poverty program, IDT, the government provided selected poor villages with grants of the same value, regardless of population size. Exploiting the variation in per household grant value that is caused by this program design, I estimate the returns to public grants, which are designated for investment loans. Results show that the returns are heterogeneous. Villages with pre-existing market facilities demonstrate increases in male labor supply, per capita income (PCI) and per capita expenditure (PCE). However, villages not accessible by land exhibit few changes in labor supply or PCI and yet an increase in PCE, particularly on festivals. These results suggest that the returns to investment capital are limited without a basic economic infrastructure.

Keywords: poverty; labor supply; investment; IDT; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 H3 J2 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-07
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