Gender disparity is present in many aspects of life, especially in politics. This paper provides new evidence on the impact of women's education on political representation focusing on several European countries. We combine multi-country data from the Gender Statistics Database of the European...

We estimate the causal effect of pandemic school closures on standardized test scores in Australia using variation in the length of school closures across states. States independently implemented school closures as part of Australia’s successful COVID elimination strategy. School closures in...

Islam stipulates its adherents to abide by religious principles in their economic transactions. The aim of this study is twofold. First, it accounts for the adherence of Shariah board members of Islamic banks with the Fit and Proper Criteria (FAPC) promulgated by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)....

Background: Lifelong education includes formal and nonformal forms of learning during an individual's life cycle for the conscious and continuous development of one's quality and the quality of life in society. Objectives: The goal of the research is to identify the most frequent research topics...

This article takes stock of where the field of behavioral science applied to education policy seems to be at, which avenues seem promising and which ones seem like dead ends. I present a curated set of studies rather than an exhaustive literature review, categorizing interventions by whether...

Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical...