Education is critical for economic growth and poverty reduction. Quality education systems
produce the global economy's workers and expand knowledge. Schooling enables students …

This article presents new results on the relationship between income inequality and
education expansion–that is, increasing average years of schooling and reducing inequality …

Education is important at national, local and individual levels. Its benefits accrue both to
society and to individuals, and as such provision of education in many countries is paid for at …

Using a Hurdle model, the paper finds that although significant progress in gender equality
in education was achieved during 1993–2005, pro-male gender bias still exists in the within …

Purpose Young people experience lower employment, income and participation rates, as
well as higher unemployment, compared to adults. Theory predicts that people respond to …

This study examines how non-farm entrepreneurship influences rural household energy
poverty and explores caste-based heterogeneities in outcomes in India. The study used …

Youth is a crucial time of life when young people start realizing their aspirations, assuming
their economic independence and finding their place in society. The global jobs crisis has …

This article estimates the impact of completed higher education on economic prosperity
across Indian districts. To address the endogeneity of higher education, we use the location …

Education is central to the development of human capital. Vietnam has made significant
progress. This paper reviews existing research on the returns to education and makes the …

This paper describes the long-term global trends in education inequality since 1870.
Inequality in years of schooling is shown to have mechanically decreased along with the …