Education quality: its contribution to socio-economy mobility and regional disparity

Abstraksi

Quality of education is important factor which can increase the probability of children to get out from poverty trap – a condition where household has difficulties to access public services and to move from poverty status. Moreover, quality of education become SDGs focuses and it can potentially reduce regional disparities through spreading equal access to qualified education services across regions. Using logit regression method, this study tries to measure an impact of education quality to the probability of people to climb out from the poverty. The study also assesses the contribution of education quality to reduce regional disparity through decreasing welfare gap among regions. The study employs more than 1000 samples from longitudinal data of Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) in year 1993, 2007, and 2015. The study found that children who attend in school with good human resource support such as principal with bachelor degree or higher and qualified teachers will have higher probability to move from poverty condition in the future; while children who went to school that have good school facilities such as electricity and library could improve the probability to move out from the poverty. The probability to move is higher for those who live in urban rather than in rural. The findings recommend that education policy should focus on spreading quality especially on teacher quality and education infrastructure across region in Indonesia therefore any household where ever they are can access qualified education services and it will contribute to improve prosperity and move from poverty.