Background: Scholars and policymakers have criticized public education in developed
countries for perpetuating health and income disparities. Several studies have examined the …

Historically there has been a relative dearth of social science research into civic education—
even in political science, a discipline that had civic education as one of its founding …

Civic honesty is essential to social capital and economic development but is often in conflict
with material self-interest. We examine the trade-off between honesty and self-interest using …

Political interest is the strongest predictor of'good citizenship', yet hardly anything is known
about it. For the first time in over three decades, here is a study explaining what political …

Since the late 1980s, performance management has become a bon ton in central and local
government research and practice. Its emergence is largely a result of neo-liberal ideas and …

Why did America introduce compulsory schooling laws at a time when financial investments
in education and voluntary school attendance were high? We provide qualitative and …

We analyze the effect of CEO education on environmental decision-making. Using a unique
sample of Danish firms from 1996 to 2012, we find that CEO education significantly improves …

One function of undergraduate education is supporting successful citizenship later in life.
Educational achievement is positively, if variably, related to political engagement. However …

We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate
pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel …

Education, which has been at the heart of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's
history and civilizations for centuries, has a large untapped potential to contribute to human …