...Edmond Berisha; Orkideh Gharehgozli; Ram Sewak Dubey; Farahmand Rezvani Purpose This paper examines how oil supply shocks and monetary policy actions jointly affect wage inequality in the US, with a particular focus on the role of education. The study addresses three key questions: (1) how...

...Vincenzo Alfano; Alessandro Scaletti Purpose This study analyses how educational attainment shapes emergency department (ED) utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the Campania region in Italy. Are different levels of education associated with heterogeneous behavioral responses...

...Mohammad Almomani; Mohammad Al-Masaeid Purpose This study investigates the relationship between education and difficulties in Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) among older adults across Europe. It explores how this relationship varies by cultural context, gender, using robust...

...Mohammad Al-Masaeid; Mohammad Almomani Purpose This study examines the relationship between educational attainment and the cost of marriage in Jordan, exploring how bride education affects groom expenditures on wedding-related items such as ceremonies, dowries, and gold payments. Design...

... to examine the relationship between social indicators and climate vulnerability. Findings The results show that health and well-being, education and economic participation, and health infrastructure spending significantly reduce climate vulnerability. In contrast, demographic dynamics exacerbate...

... decomposition model based on Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and panel data from national household surveys, the research reveals nuanced insights into the dynamics of wage inequality. Findings This research underscores the critical role of education, policy reforms, and cultural dynamics in shaping gender...

... Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) to address the potential endogeneity problem of the schooling variable. Findings The findings indicate that a higher level of willingness to take risks is correlated with additional schooling years. In other words, those with higher levels of education are more prone...

...) estimation with panel data, using the EU KLEMS database. Findings The results show that when education level increases, labor income share increases and gender-based labor income share differentials decrease. Return to education is higher in qualitative sectors in contrast with the other sectors...

...Stefani Milovanska-Farrington Purpose This research explores the impact of parental educational attainment, race, ethnicity, gender and employment on the time parents spend educating their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach School closures to prevent the spread...

...Maryam Dilmaghani Purpose The present study assesses how sibship size affects child quality as measured by educational attainment. Design/methodology/approach The data are from the Canadian General Social Surveys (GSS) of 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1995. The sample is restricted to the individuals...

...Michael Polemis Purpose We use disaggregated survey data set to investigate the impact of personality traits on the level of education in the USA. We attempt to shed light on the contribution of each of the Big Five personality traits on the education decision made by the individuals. Design...

...Bijoy Rakshit; Yadawananda Neog Purpose The primary purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of educational attainment on crime rates across 33 Indian states over the period 2001 to 2013. This paper also examines the role of various macroeconomic, socio-economic...

... of employment. Findings Although education increases formal employment among women, most of them are unemployed or entering into informal employment. It indicates that the labour market has not been able to integrate educated women into formal employment. Research limitations/implications Increase...

...Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah; Louis Boakye-Yiadom; William Baah-Boateng Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of education on migration decisions focusing on rural and urban in-migrants by comparing the 2005/2006 and 2012/2013 rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey...

...Jutta Viinikainen; Katja Kokko; Lea Pulkkinen; Jaakko Pehkonen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on labor market careers of dropouts with various levels of education. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares the labor market careers of dropouts and non...

...Aysit Tansel; Nil Gungor Purpose – This study is concerned with the separate output effects of female and male education, as well as output effects of the educational gender gap. Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on output level...

... evidence that young people who are classified as “lower achievers” at age 16 can be educationally successful by age 18. The influence from family background on educational attainment diminishes by the age of 18, which suggests that personal characteristics and aspirations have a greater influence...

...Bernardin Senadza Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine the nature and extent of gender and spatial inequalities in educational attainment in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the education Gini coefficient, computed on the basis of years of schooling of individuals...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Growth Education Data revisions Model selection Economic growth Until recently, concerns about cross‐country growth regressions have centred mainly on the right‐hand side of the equation – the selection process of the independent variables...

...Vladimir Kuhl Teles; Joaquim Andrade Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to visualize the relation between government spending on basic education and the human capital accumulation process, observing the impacts of this spending on individual investments in higher education, and on economic...