Why is it so hard for Indonesia to recruit good teachers? We argue that the struggle to recruit good teachers are due to institutional, political economy,…

Whether better test scores can increase college attendance among poor students in low- and middle-income countries remains an open question. Using data from…

We trace the effects of a devastating earthquake that occurred in Northern Pakistan in 2005. Using a new dataset from a survey conducted four years after…

The Sustainable Development Goals have targets for both expansion of schooling to achieve universal completion of primary and secondary schooling…

This paper presents evidence on teacher opinions regarding performance pay from a large experimental evaluation that included three interventions: a school…

On the 2012 and 2015 PISA assessments, Vietnam’s performance ranks much higher than that of all other developing countries, and even ahead of…

Poor teacher accountability leads to poor education quality, especially in remotely-located schools that are costly to supervise. This paper reports the…

Understanding whether wide-ranging education reforms effectively improve learning outcomes is of crucial importance in many low and middle-income countries…

Why do some students learn more in some schools than others? One consideration receiving growing attention is school management. To study this, researchers…

Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have not implemented testing of children’s learning that can be benchmarked regionally or globally. In contrast, in the…

This study provides a rare ground-level picture of the interactions around schooling among parents, teachers, district-level brokers, as well as village…

Accountability is rightly at the center of the conversation regarding how to improve governance systems, particularly health and education systems. But…

The basic theoretical and practical issue facing the RISE…