More for the Girls? Postindependence Education Expenditure in Timor-Leste

Wisnu Setiadi Nugroho and Anita Alves Pena
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Anita Alves Pena: Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Asian Development Review (ADR), 2025, vol. 42, issue 02, 249-278

Abstract: Using the Timor-Leste Survey of Living Standards, we show that the household education spending on girls was higher than for boys in the period following independence. This pattern contrasts with that in the neighboring and politically interrelated country of Indonesia. We explore how religious differences and supply and demand features of private (relatively costly) Catholic schools across these countries relate to the dynamics of these policy-relevant educational gaps during the course of development in Timor-Leste.

Keywords: Catholic schools; education; gender; Indonesia; Timor-Leste (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 J16 O15 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1142/S011611052550012X

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