The study investigates separately demand characteristics of consuming healthy food such as fresh fruit and vegetable (FV) based on the 2003/2004 Nigeria Living Standard Survey (NLSS) data. It uses the double-hurdle model that allows the analysis of both the decisions to consume and the demand...

The literature reiterates the need to employ indicators that reflect the multidimensional nature of food security. In a quest to capture the multidimensional nature of food security, this study uses a novel ideal that harmonizes two food security indicators (food expenditure (FOODexp) and...

This article is designed to investigate the existence of relationship between daily per capita demand for nutrients (calorie, protein, and animal fat intake) and economic growth indicator measured by per capita real Gross Domestic Products (GDP). Using annual time series data covering 1961-2007...

The quality of administrative or longitudinal data used in education research has always been an issue of concern since they are collected mainly for recording and reporting, rather than research. The advancement in computational techniques in statistics could help researchers navigates many of...

The COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks forced families to decide the safest and most effective learning environments for their children because of the virus's threat to health and life. Hence, because of the nationwide school closure, policymakers have raised concerns about the missing children...

The study revisits the causal relationship between agricultural productivity and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is based on the panel cointegration approach, estimated using the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimators. The study employs a cross-country balanced panel data...

The paper examines the effect of trade on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. We employ a balanced panel of 11 countries covering 1980-2008 and use a fractional regression model for panel data as a method of estimation. The empirical results show that trade decreases income...

This study investigates the effects of socioeconomic status on racial achievement gaps. The educational achievement gap is based on the study's standardized test scores and grade point averages. And for the empirical analysis, we used a trend analysis and regression approach based on two-way...

The development of vaccines is considered an important public health tool to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus globally. And this study examines whether convergence exists in COVID-19 vaccinations across U.S. states and territories. We employed the club convergence test and data on the...

Conventional wisdom shows that crime exhibits a countercyclical pattern-trending up during recessions and down during economic expansion. This observation makes the analyzes of the determinants of the crime of interest to researchers to inform policy. To this end, the present study employs...