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Impact of Agricultural Sectors and Income Inequality in Rural Toward Role of Public Education in Decreasing Educational Inequality in Indonesia

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  • Doddy Ismunandar Bahari

    (Doctoral Student of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia,)

  • Hermanto Siregar

    (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia,)

  • Sahara Sahara

    (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia,)

  • Handewi Purwati Saliem Rachman

    (Indonesian Centre for Agricultural Socio Economic and Policy Studies, Ministry of Agriculture, Indonesia.)

Abstract

Generally, the aims of this research was to analyze the role and the inputs allocation of public education and the factors which affected educational inequality. Using panel data in 33 provinces during 2010 to 2016 which then analyzed by stochastic frontier method. The results showed excessive allocation of resources in the addition of school buildings at primary and junior secondary school. Reducing education inequality could be encouraged through the addition government spending on education, number of teachers in junior secondary education and lecturer in higher education, and number of school buildings in senior secondary school and college education. The role public education performance was only able to affect 83.8 of educational inequality, and its remaining 16,2 percent due to the high percentage of rural school age labor, percentage of labor in the agricultural sector, farmer's terms of trade, and gross domestic product per labor on the agricultural sector.

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  • Doddy Ismunandar Bahari & Hermanto Siregar & Sahara Sahara & Handewi Purwati Saliem Rachman, 2019. "Impact of Agricultural Sectors and Income Inequality in Rural Toward Role of Public Education in Decreasing Educational Inequality in Indonesia," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, vol. 9(1), pages 151-159.
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    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • Q19 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Other
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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