More for the Girls? Postindependence Education Expenditure in Timor-Leste
Year: 2025
Type: article
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.
Source: Asian Development Review
Authors: WISNU SETIADI NUGROHO, ANITA ALVES PENA
Institutions: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Colorado State University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409405579