...Fernanda Araujo Maciel Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Família (BF) program on children's educational outcomes, addressing concerns about endogeneity and selection bias in prior research. Design/methodology/approach Using household survey data...

...Cheikh Tidiane Ndour Purpose This study investigates the impact of different education levels on sectoral value-added in agriculture, manufacturing, and services across 50 African countries from 2005 to 2020. By analyzing the relationship between education and sectoral outputs, it aims to provide...

... women and youth. The study aims to explore how factors like education, technology access and early marriage influence employment for men and women. Design/methodology/approach Using data from the 2018 Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey, the study employs a binary logistic regression model...

...Megan Thiele Strong; Javier Corredor Purpose Research shows that teachers’ salaries influence educational and non-educational outcomes. And still, too few studies explore whether teacher compensation patterns correlate with student mental health outcomes. This research attends to this gap and asks...

...Sarimah Surianshah; Sarah Bridges Purpose The objective of this study is to examine gender differences in the allocation of household expenditure on education in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach This study examines the determinants of expenditure on education using a double hurdle model...

... to educators, university administrators, curriculum developers and entrepreneurial policy planners to realize the role of individual expectancies of students’ entrepreneurs on their EI. Social implications The student entrepreneur community recognizes that individual students with stronger levels...

... 47% of the households are still using unclean cooking fuel in India. Households with a better-educated or female head, those with smaller family sizes, those with a higher level of wealth and those located in urban areas are more likely to use clean cooking fuel. Similarly, households headed...

...Daria Loginova; Stefan Mann Purpose This study aims to test Singer’s suggestion that ‘over the next 20 years meat could follow smoking into disrepute” using the findings of the recent literature on meat consumption, education and smoking and data from consumers in Switzerland in 1990–2017...

... activities across all types of work without focussing on specific education levels or regions. Peer review The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-07-2023-0580 31 07 2023 06 11 2023 21 12 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited...

...Shree Priya Singh; Pushpendra Singh; Jadi Bala Komaraiah Purpose The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, the study has investigated the changing scenario of gender bias in households' education expenditure and the socioeconomic factors responsible for it. Secondly, the study has estimated...

... and cultural factors are responsible for such disparities in occupational choices. The purpose of this study is to examine this gender dimension of occupational diversification for rural India and focuses on the role of education, caste and land ownership in explaining employment probabilities across gender...

...João Jungo; Mara Madaleno; Anabela Botelho Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of financial inclusion and financial innovation on corruption, considering the moderating role of education, as well as identify the specific modality of digital inclusion and payments that contribute...

...Kalyani Mangalika Lakmini Rathu Manannalage; Shyama Ratnasiri; Andreas Chai Purpose While the monetary returns to education are well documented in the economics literature, the studies on non-monetary returns to education are scarce. The purpose of this study is to provide new insights...

... in a dynamic context across the four provinces of Pakistan over a decade (2005–2006 to 2015–2016) by using a regression-based inequality decomposition method. Findings Age, gender and higher education are the most prominent factors explaining the level of inequality across the four provinces of Pakistan...

... educational policy has the probability of influencing voting behaviour in favour of the policy implementor. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the nexus between an all-inclusive Free Senior High School educational policy and voting behaviour...

... of immunizations and reducing undernourishment. Health Education Welfare I1 I3 Governments in developing countries fund health care through two main systems, a public system paid through taxes, or through social insurance programs. The former permits all citizens to receive free or extremely...

...Richard Kofi Asravor Purpose The increasing rate at which individuals, especially, females in Ghana are seeking higher education calls for an estimation of the returns to schooling and education in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The study employs the Mincer equation to a representative...

... and amount of expenditure using the exponential Type 2 Tobit model. A dataset of a large sample (n = 14,838) that is nationally representative is used. Findings The results suggest that household size, location of residence as well as age, education and marital status of the household heads...

...Ehsan Latif Purpose This study used data from the General Social Survey (2011) to examine the trends in intergenerational educational mobility in Canada for the 1940–1989 birth cohorts. To this end, the purpose of this study is to focus on the relationship between mothers' education and children's...

...Nicholas M. Odhiambo Purpose This paper examines the dynamic causal relationship between education and economic growth in South Africa using annual time-series data from 1986 to 2017. The study attempts to answer one critical question: Does education, which is one of the priority sectors in South...