Education

J-PAL’s Education sector seeks to improve access to and delivery of high-quality schooling at the primary and post-primary levels through research on issues like pedagogy, teacher training, incentives (for children, for teachers, for families), school governance, early childhood development, and information and communications technology.

In addition to supporting policymakers in applying evidence from randomized evaluations to their work, sector chairs and staff write policy insights that synthesize general lessons emerging from the research, condense results from evaluations in policy publications and evaluation summaries, and fund new research through the Learning for All Initiative.

Past education sector initiatives include the Post Primary Education Initiative and the Foundations of Learning Initiative.

Children study in a classroom.
Blog

Mitigating global learning losses: lessons from the pandemic

Researchers and policymakers in education are still only beginning to measure the significant learning and socio-emotional skill losses that occurred during the global outbreak of the coronavirus. This post outlines some ideas from recent and established rigorous research for governments and schools...

Improving student learning: impacts by gender
Policy Insight

Improving student learning: Impacts by gender

Most programs to improve student learning have similar impacts on girls and boys. However, policymakers should consider potential different effects by gender while designing programs since, in some cases, program design choices led to different impacts on girls and boys.

Girls and teacher standing up at a classroom in Mozambique
Evaluation

Gender Violence and School Achievement in Mozambique

In Mozambique, researchers are evaluating the GBV and schooling impacts of implementing a GBV curriculum targeted at students.

Students working at a Mindspark center in Delhi.
Evaluation

Disrupting Education? Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India

Researchers evaluated a computer-based adaptive learning platform (Mindspark) for secondary school students in urban India to measure the impact of customized learning technology on student test scores. The program increased test scores across all groups of students and was cost-effective compared...

TaRL activities taking place in a classroom in Gujarat, India
Evidence to Policy

Teaching at the Right Level to improve learning

Reorienting instruction has improved learning opportunities for over 60 million students in India and Africa.

Teens in school uniforms work on assignment
Evaluation

Returns to Secondary Schooling in Ghana

In this ongoing study, researchers are evaluating the effect of secondary school scholarships on educational attainment and cognitive skills in the short run, and on life outcomes in the longer run, from employment and health outcomes to civic participation and attitudes.

Sector Chairs

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رئيس مشارك, Education

Associate Professor

University of Chicago

رئيس مشارك, Education

Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics

University of California, San Diego

رئيس مشارك, Education

Professor of Economics

University of Toronto

Sector Contacts

Headshot of Anushka Bansal

Senior Policy Associate, J-PAL Global

Madeline Brancel

Policy Manager, J-PAL Global

Senior Manager of Initiatives, J-PAL Global

Headshot of Nicole (Nicah) Santos

Senior Policy Associate, J-PAL Global

Headshot of Demitria Wack

Senior Policy Associate, J-PAL Global

Headshot of Jessica Williams

Policy Associate, J-PAL Global