RISE is a large scale, multi-country research programme developed to answer the question: “How can education systems be reformed to deliver better learning for all?” The RISE Programme Annual Conferences bring together high-profile academics and policy makers for two days of…
Because primary education is often conceptualized as a pro-poor redistributive policy, a common political economy argument is that democratization leads to…
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the impact of female…
Why do some governments provide more public goods than others? Focusing on the case of public education, this article is motivated by the puzzle that…
Public-sector unions are generally thought to increase the size of government through collective bargaining. This article challenges this idea for the case…
Source: Luis Crouch, using data from EGRA learning assessments and other publications, and taking a stylized average across sets of countries.
Using timed learning…
Luis Crouch illustrates what a lack of fluency means in real time to push "actors" into action.
