Wiryawan, Bangkit A. and Martini, Rina and Sardini, Nur Hidayat (2022) Generation Y on the Spot: Early Assessment of Millennial District Heads’ Performance on Human Capital in Indonesian Districts. In: International Conference Proceeding ICISPE Universitas Diponegoro 22 EMBRACING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: COLLABORATIVE INNOVATIONS TROUGH SOCIAL AND POLITICAL RESEARCH 7-8 SEPT 2022. ICISPE Fisip Undip, Semarang.

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Abstract

Starting in the second round of local election, increasing number of millennial candidates are
participating in the direct local election in Indonesia. This refers to a young demographic cohort born between
1981 and 1996, known to be more cosmopolitan compared to the previous generation. We gathered seventeen
cases of elected millennial district heads between 2010 and 2017 and making an early observation of their
impact on human capital development. Difference-in-difference estimation method is applied using province
average as the control group. Results show that following the winning of the millennial leaders there is a
diverging trend of Human Development Index score at 0.03 and 0.07 in the first and second year, consecutively,
before started converging around the third and fourth year. Lacking leadership skills and experiences, that may
also be perpetrated by generational gap, are among the contributing factors to the problem, while we so far
unable to find significant negative impact of elite capture. We check the robustness of our result using poverty
data and further find that millennial leaders are also under perform in combating poverty. This early assessment
would benefit from further heterogeneity analyses as well as narrowing the control group, which is our
recommendation for future research.
Keywords: Generation Y, millennials, local politics, direct election, human capital

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