This paper applies an unconditional quantile regression (RIF) decomposition to Indonesia’s gender expenditure gap, finding that differences in endowments help narrow the gap while differences in returns (coefficients) do not.
Continue ReadingThis paper examines whether the COVID-19 recession in Indonesia hit men (“mancession”) or women (“shecession”) harder, analyzing gendered employment and economic disparities during the pandemic.
Continue ReadingThis paper examines regional human capital convergence across Türkiye’s 81 provinces over 2008-2022 using exploratory space-time data analysis (ESTDA). It finds an overall process of regional human capital convergence in which spatial dependence plays a significant role.
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This paper investigates the regional Okun’s law across 514 districts of Indonesia over the 2011–2020 period. To handle the endogeneity issue, we apply a two-stage least squares (2SLS) model and use regional temperature as instrument for economic growth. Our results show that the Okun’s coefficient becomes statistically significant only after endogeneity is addressed. Consistent with the prevalent economic divide between the western and eastern regions of Indonesia, we find that Okun’s law applies solely to the more industrialized western regions.
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