Pendidikan anak usia dini (PAUD) berjalan selama sekitar tiga jam setiap pagi. Apakah waktunya terlalu singkat untuk berdampak? Pada seminar ini, Dyah Pritadrajati, kandidat doktor dalam ilmu ekonomi pada Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, The Australian National University, akan membahas risetnya tentang waktu sekolah PAUD yang singkat di Indonesia.

Ternyata ketika seorang anak ikut PAUD selama tiga jam setiap hari, keseharian seluruh anggota keluarganya ikut berubah. Perubahannya seperti apa? Apa dampak perubahan tersebut bagi keluarga, khusunya perempuan? Secara ekonomi, bagaimana dampaknya bagi Indonesia?

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Kamis, 15 Januari 2026 jam 12.00-12.45 WIB 

Pembicara: Dyah Pritadrajati (Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, The Australian National University)

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Can partial childcare change mothers’ work? Labour supply and household adjustments

Abstrak. This paper examines how access to part-day kindergarten affects household labour allocation in Indonesia, where female labour force participation is low and families rely heavily on informal care. Exploiting age-based eligibility cutoffs in an instrumental variable design, I find that kindergarten enrolment increases mothers’ labour force participation and employment by about 13 percentage points and raises weekly hours worked by roughly 5 percent, with larger gains among less-educated, rural, and low-income women. These gains hold even in households with kin caregivers,with no evidence of crowding out of informal care. Access also increases school enrolment and reduces labour among older siblings—especially girls—and raises non-food household consumption. Improvements in job quality remain minimal, likely constrained by the short duration of care and rigid labour markets. Part-day childcare meaningfully relaxes mothers’ time constraints and increases their work, but the short programme limits deeper shifts in job quality and does little to alter women’s bargaining power within the household.

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