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title: "Educational attainment research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “educational attainment” appeared in 1,282 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (780), health economics and policy (169) and finance (88)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “educational attainment” appeared in 1,282 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (780), health economics and policy (169) and finance (88). (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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---

# Papers on “educational attainment”

Research on “educational attainment” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “educational attainment” appeared in 1,282 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (780), health economics and policy (169) and finance (88).
- 201 of them were published in 2025, against 111 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (20), Renmin University of China (13) and Peking University (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (31), Economics of Education Review (25) and International Journal of Educational Development (25).
- The most-cited of them is “Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys” (Journal of Public Economics, 2020), with 1,415 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 79 | 58 | 64 | 74 | 73 | 78 | 81 | 82 | 103 | 88 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 15 | 19 | 20 | 9 | 21 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 27 | 19 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 9 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 6 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 9 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 111 | 100 | 110 | 109 | 125 | 120 | 133 | 137 | 201 | 136 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 31 |
| 2 | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 25 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 24 |
| 5 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 21 |
| 6 | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IZA - Institute of Labor Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 7 |
| 8 | University of Notre Dame | 7 |
| 9 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Zhongnan University of Economics and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 162 |
| 2 | China | 158 |
| 3 | Germany | 52 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 51 |
| 5 | Italy | 33 |
| 6 | Spain | 29 |
| 7 | France | 22 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 21 |
| 9 | Canada | 17 |
| 10 | Australia | 16 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [gender differences](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/gender-differences.md) | 87 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 63 |
| 3 | [human capital](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/human-capital.md) | 46 |
| 4 | labor market outcomes | 28 |
| 5 | [income inequality](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/income-inequality.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 24 |
| 7 | household income | 22 |
| 8 | income | 22 |
| 9 | age differences | 18 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,415 | 18.8 | [Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104245) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-07-31 | Abi Adams‐Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin et al. |
| 2 | 347 | 5.2 | [The effects of gender, educational level, and personality on online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-021-00252-3) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2021-04-01 | Zhonggen Yu |
| 3 | 273 | 2.5 | [A New Profile of the Global Poor](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.08.002) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2017-10-11 | Andrés Castañeda, Dung Doan, David Newhouse et al. |
| 4 | 260 | 2.7 | [Effect of general risk on trust, satisfaction, and recommendation intention for halal food](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2018.10.017) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2018-11-07 | Amr Al‐Ansi, Hossein Olya, Heesup Han |
| 5 | 242 | 2.4 | [Women's schooling, fertility, and child health outcomes: Evidence from Uganda's free primary education program](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.07.002) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 2018-07-05 | Anthony Keats |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “educational attainment”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/educational-attainment

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “educational attainment”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/educational-attainment}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).