Barakat, B., and R. Shields. 2019. “Just Another Level? Comparing Quantitative Patterns of Global School and High Education Expansion.” Demography. (forthcoming)

Barakat, B., and S. Bengtsson. 2018. “What Do We Mean by School Entry Age? Conceptual Ambiguity and Its Implications: The Example of Indonesia.” Comparative Education 54 (2): 203–24.

Barakat, B., and J. Crespo Cuaresma. 2017. “Credit Where Credit Is Due: An Approach to Education Returns Based on Shapley Values.” Education Economics 25 (5): 533–41.

Barakat, B. 2018. “Time Is Money: Disentangling Higher Education Cost-Sharing and Commodification Through Deferred Graduate Retirement.” Higher Education Policy 31 (3): 289–307.

Barakat, Bilal. 2017. “Generalised count distributions for modelling parity.” Demographic Research 36 (26): 745–58. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.26.

Abel, Guy, Bilal Barakat, Samir KC, and Wolfgang Lutz. 2016. “Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals Leads to Lower World Population Growth.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 113 (50): 14294–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.1611386113.

Barakat, B. 2016. “Improving Adult Literacy Without Improving the Literacy of Adults? A Cross-National Cohort Analysis.” World Development 87: 242–57. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.06.015.

Barakat, B. 2016. “‘Sorry I Forgot Your Birthday!’: Adjusting Apparent School Participation for Survey Timing When Age Is Measured in Whole Years.” International Journal of Educational Development 49: 300–313. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.03.011.

Goujon, A., S. Kc, M. Speringer, B. Barakat, M. Potancoková, J. Eder, E. Striessnig, R. Bauer, and W. Lutz. 2016. “A Harmonized Dataset on Global Educational Attainment Between 1970 and 2060: An Analytical Window into Recent Trends and Future Prospects in Human Capital Development.” Journal of Demographic Economics 82 (3): 315–63. doi:10.1017/dem.2016.10.

Barakat, B. 2015. “A ‘Recipe for Depopulation’? School Closures and Local Population Decline in Saxony.” Population, Space and Place 21 (8): 735–53.

Zhao, D., and B. Barakat. 2015. “The Increasingly Long Road to School in Rural China: The Impacts of Education Network Consolidation on Broadly Defined Schooling Distance in Xinfeng County of Rural China.” Asia Pacific Education Review 16 (3): 413–31. doi:10.1007/s12564-015-9380-y.

Barakat, B., and S. Basten. 2014. “Modelling the Constraints on Consanguineous Marriage When Fertility Declines.” Demographic Research 30 (9): 277–312. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2013.30.9.

Barakat, B., and R.E. Durham. 2013. “Drop-Out Mayors and Graduate Farmers: Educational Fertility Differentials by Occupational Status and Industry in Six European Countries’.” Demographic Research 28 (42): 1213–62. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2013.28.42.

Barakat, B., R.E. Durham, and C. Rodrigues Guimarães. 2013. “Age Compositional Adjustments for Educational Participation Indicators.” Population 68 (4): 607–26.

Barakat, B. 2012. “A Second Look at School-Life Expectancy.” International Journal of Educational Development 32 (4): 564–74. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.09.006.

KC, S., B. Barakat, A. Goujon, V. Skirbekk, and W. Lutz. 2010. “Projection of Populations by Level of Educational Attainment, Age and Sex for 120 Countries for 2005–2050.” Demographic Research 22 (15). doi:10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.15.

Barakat, B. 2008. “Education and Intra-Alliance Conflict: Contrasting and Comparing Popular Struggles in Apartheid South Africa and Palestine.” Research in Comparative and International Education 3 (1). Symposium Journals: 5–18. doi:10.2304/rcie.2008.3.1.5.

Bengtsson, S., B. Barakat, and R. Muttarrak. 2018. The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda. Routledge.

Barakat, B. 2016. “Education Trends in India: Recent Census Results in Context.” In Contemporary Demographic Transformations in China, India and Indonesia, edited by Gavin Jones and Christophe Guilmoto, 177–93. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24783-0_11.

Moser, E., A. Prskawetz, G. Feichtinger, and B. Barakat. 2016. “Maximizing Female Labor Force Participation in a Stationary Population.” In Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making, edited by H. Dawid, K. F. Doerner, G. Feichtinger, P. M. Kort, and A. Seidl, 167–88. Springer.

Barakat, B., and R.E. Durham. 2014. “Future Education Trends.” In World Population and Human Capital in the 21st Century, edited by W. Lutz, W.P. Butz, and S. KC. Oxford University Press.

Skirbekk, V., E. Loichinger, and B. Barakat. 2012. “The Aging of the Workforce in European Countries: Demographic Trends, Retirement Projections, and Retirement Policies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging, edited by J.W. Hedge and W.C. Borman. New York: Oxford University Press.

Barakat, B., D. Carson, A. Taylor, R. Basu, and L. Wang. 2011. “Education, Remoteness and Population Dynamics.” In Demography at the Edge: Remote Human Populations in Developed Nations, edited by D. Carson, R. Rasmussen, P. C. Ensign, A. Taylor, and L. Huskey, 225–70. Farnham, England: Ashgate.

Barakat, B. 2009. “Unterschiede Im Geburtenverhalten Nach Ausbildungsniveau.” In Familienentwicklung in österreich: Erste Ergebnisse Des Generations and Gender Survey (Ggs) 2008/09, edited by I Buber and N Neuwirth. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences & Austrian Institute for Family Studies.

Barakat, B. 2009. “Deepening the Divide: The Differential Impact of Protracted Conflict on Tvet Vs Academic Education in Palestine.” In International Handbook of Education for the Changing World of Work, edited by R. Maclean and D. Wilson, 978–1. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5281-1_54.

Barakat, B. 2007. “The Struggle for Palestinian National Education Past and Present.” In Aspects of Education in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by C. Brock and L. Levers. Oxford: Symposium.

Barakat, B. 2017. “Review of "Coping with Demographic Change. A Comparative View on Education and Local Government in Germany and Poland" by Reinhold Sackmann, Walter Bartl, Bernadette Jonda, and Katarzyna Kopycka.” International Sociology 32 (5): 657–60.

Barakat, B. 2012. “Review of ‘Trajectories of Education in the Arab World: Legacies and Challenges’ Ed. By Osama Abi-Mershed.” Compare 42 (3): 549–51. doi:10.1080/03057925.2012.657927.

Barakat, B. 2009. “Review of ‘Economic Development, Education and Transnational Corporations’ by Mark Hanson.” Comparative Education 45 (1): 131–40. doi:10.1080/03050060802661436.

Barakat, B. 2008. “Review of ‘the Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs’ by Sari Hanafi and Linda Tabar.” Journal of Refugee Studies 20 (1): 154–56. doi:10.1093/jrs/fel037.

Barakat, B., and R. Shields. 2016. “Just Another Level? Comparing Quantitative Patterns of Global School and Higher Education Expansion.” Working Paper 5/16. Vienna Institute of Demography (VID). (journal version under review)

Barakat, B. 2014. “Revisiting the History of Fertility Concentration and Its Measurement.” Working Paper 01/14. Vienna Institute of Demography (VID).

Barakat, B., J. Holler, K. Prettner, and J. Schuster. 2010. “The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Labour and Education in Europe.” Working Paper 06/10. Vienna Institute of Demography (VID).

Goujon, A., and B. Barakat. 2010. “Future Demographic Challenges in the Arab World.” Occasional Papers 75. The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies; Research (ECSSR), United Arab Emirates.

Urdal, H., B. Barakat, and J. Paulson. 2010. “Youth, Education, and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa.” Background paper for the World Bank MENA flagship report

Barakat, B., Z. Karpinska, and J. Paulson. 2008. “Education and Fragility.” Prepared for the Interagency Network on Education in Emergencies (INEE)

Kane, L., B. Barakat, A. Inglis, Z. Karpinska, J. Paulson, and R. Yarrow. 2007. “Education for Livelihoods and Civic Participation in Post-Conflict Countries: Conceptualizing a Holistic Approach to TVET Planning and Programming in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Discussion Paper 3. UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical; Vocational Education; Training.

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