RISE Annual Conference 2017

Thursday 15 June

09:00 - Welcome

Session 1: Politics of Reform

• Barbara Bruns (Center for Global Development) and Pablo Cevallos Estarellas (UNESCO-IIEP): The Politics of Transforming Education in Ecuador: Confrontation and Continuity, 2006-2016 (Lead author Ben Ross Schneider) - PRESENTATION

• Alec Gershberg (New School University): Trying to Learn from Complex Education System Reform Processes: Guideposts for Navigating Political Waters from Case Studies - PRESENTATION

• ​Joseph Wales (Overseas Development Institute): How are Education Systems, Reforms and Learning Outcomes Shaped by Political Context? - PRESENTATION

11:00 - RISE Country Research Team (CRT) Session 1:  Research Presentations

• Tassew Woldehanna (Addis Ababa University): Is Preschool Education Instrumental for the Completion of Secondary Education in Ethiopia? Lessons Drawn from the Longitudinal Data of Young Lives (co-author Mesele W. Araya) - PRESENTATION

•  Alejandro Ganimian (J-Pal): Disrupting Education: Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India 

• Menno Pradhan (VU University/University of Amsterdam): Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia - PRESENTATION

• James Habyarimana (Georgetown University): The Political Economy of Systemic Reform in Tanzanian Education - PRESENTATION

• Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota): What Explains Vietnam’s Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012 PISA Data - PRESENTATION

13:00 - Lunchtime Panel: Bilateral Perspectives: What Does a Systems Approach to Education Mean in Practice?

• David Coleman (Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - DFAT) 

• Laura Savage (UK’s Department for International Development - DFID) 

• Tjip Walker (US Agency for International Development - USAID) 

14:00 - CRT Session 2: System Diagnostics

• India CRT - Alejandro Ganimian (J-PAL) 

• Pakistan CRT - Jishnu Das (World Bank) 

• Tanzania CRT - Andrew Zeitlin  (Georgetown University) 

• Vietnam CRT - Jonathan London (Leiden University)

16:30 - Keynote Panel: Why is Learning in Crisis? Diagnosing System Incoherence

• Claudia Costin (Center for Innovation and Excellence in Education Policies/Getulio Vargas Foundation)

• Alec Gershberg (New School University)

• Jaime Saavedra (Education Global Practice at the World Bank Group) 

• Liesbet Steer (Education Commission)

Friday 16 June

09:00 - Session 2: Alternative Modalities of Provision

• Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute): Improving Learning Outcomes Through Information Provision: Evidence from Indian Villages (co-authors Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan) - PRESENTATION

• Felipe Barrera-Osorio  (Harvard University): Leveraging the Private Sector to Improve Primary School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Pakistan (co-author Dhushyanth Raju​) - PRESENTATION

• Natalie Bau (University of Toronto): The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers (co-author Jishnu Das) - PRESENTATION

• Moussa Blimpo (World Bank): Scaling Up Children’s School Readiness in The Gambia: Lessons from an Experimental Study (co-author Todd Pugatch) - PRESENTATION

11:30 - RISE Country Research Team Session 3: Overview of New Research Teams

• Tassew Woldehanna  (Addis Ababa University) - PRESENTATION

• Amanda Beatty (Mathematica Policy Research)

14:00 - Session 3: Methods and Measurement

• Alejandro Ganimian (J-PAL): Teaching, Not Talent: Identifying the Source of Poor Educational Performance in Developing Countries (co-authors Abhijit Banerjee​, Swati Bhattacharjee, and Raghabendra Chattopadhyay)

• Julie Buhl-Wiggers (University of Copenhagen): The Impact of Teacher Effectiveness on Student Learning in Africa (co-authors Jason kerwin, Jeffrey Smith, and Rebecca Thornton) - PRESENTATION

• David Evans (World Bank): The Economic Returns to Interventions that Increase Learning (co-author Fei Yuan) - PRESENTATION

• Shwetlana Sabarwal  (World Bank): Better Than Most: Teacher Self-Beliefs in Uganda (co-authors James Habyarimana and Kanishka Kacker) - PRESENTATION

16:30 - Session 4: Pedagogy

• Yared Seid (International Growth Centre): The Impact of Learning in Mother Tongue First: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ethiopia - PRESENTATION

• Ingo Outes-Leon (University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government): Growth Mindset at Scale (co-authors Alan Sanchez and Renos Vakis) - PRESENTATION