Economics of Education and Sustainable Development

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Education; History; academic progression; ASEAN-5; behavioral competencies; consumer life satisfaction; difference-in-differences analysis; dynamic spatial SLX model; economic growth; education; education heterogeneity; education input; educational policy evaluation; emotional competencies; entrepreneurial education; entrepreneurial intentions; female professors; financial management; gender discrimination; gender disparity; gender gap; health; high school equalization policy; higher education; housing market; human capital; human capital investment; international students; Intra-household income inequality; kink regression; maternity penalty; nonlinear; ordered probit regression; parental economic expectation; principal-agency model; Propensity Score Matching; rate of returns; screening and sheepskin effects; senior secondary school; sheepskin effects; spatial spillover effects; supply/demand transition in labor market; sustainable development; sustainable economic development; sustainable financial education; technological innovation; the necessity of financial education; total factor productivity growth; trivariate causality; tuition fee control policy; unintended consequence; VAR model; wage discrimination; women faculty; Zimbabwe
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036517179; 9783036517186; books978-3-0365-1717-9
• Access: Open Access

This book consists of articles that investigate and discuss the relationship between economics of education and sustainable development; that is, how education economics plays an important role in sustainable development. Economics of education or education economics is the study of economic issues relating to education (such as education policy and finance, human capital production and acquisition, and the returns to human capital); while sustainable development is the study of a system (a human society) operating and growing continuously, which includes environment, economy, industry, business, agriculture, etc. This book particularly focuses on the economy - how an economy continuously and steadily develops and grows.