RISE Launch Event
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This two-day conference provided an opportunity to explore and exchange ideas related to education systems research.
Event Programme
Session 1: Introduction to RISE and education systems research
Welcome: Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development
Session chair: Clare Leaver, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
Lant Pritchett, Center for Global Development
Jishnu Das, World Bank
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California at San Diego
Kara Hanson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Session 2: Non-state providers
Public Private Partnerships: Impact of Public Funding on Private School Performance in Uganda by James Habyarimana, Georgetown University
Long-run Consequences of Vouchers by Michael Kremer, Harvard University
Public Private Partnerships in Pakistan by Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Pre-solicitation meeting for RISE potential bidders Including presentation on Terms of Reference and Q & A with Lant Pritchett
Session 3: School autonomy, competition, and management
Does Greater School Autonomy Make a Difference? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment in South Korea by L. Choon Wang, Monash University
An Empirical Analysis of School Choice under Uncertainty by Kehinde Ajayi, Boston University
School-Based Management, Local Capacity, and Educational Outcomes: Lessons from a Randomized Field Experiment by Moussa Blimpo, University of Oklahoma
Session 4: Comparing and evaluating systems
Learning More with Every Year: School Year Productivity and International Learning Divergence by Abhijeet Singh, University of Oxford
Policy Transfer & Guideposts for Accountability for Complex Education Reforms: Lessons from Five Countries by Alec Gershberg, The New School, New York City.
A Practical Approach to In-Country Systems Research by Luis Crouch, RTI International
Session 5 Panel: Discussion on doing systems research
Vicky Colbert, Fundación Escuela Nueva
David Evans, World Bank
Stephen Taylor, Department of Basic Education, South African Government
Session 6: Implementing reform
Teacher Community Assistant Initiative: Evidence from Ghana by Annie Duflo, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
From Quantity to Quality: Coalitions and the Politics of Education Reform in Latin America by Ben Schneider, MIT
Education and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Colonial Benin by Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University
Session 7: Teachers
Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools by Albert Park, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Primary Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania by Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia
Pay by Design: Teacher Performance Pay Design and the Distribution of Student Achievement by Prashant Loyalka, Stanford University
Can Better Teachers Compensate for Early Deficits? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador by Norbert Schady, Inter-American Development Bank
Session 8: Measurement
The Consequences of Using One Assessment System to Pursue Two Objectives by Derek Neal, University of Chicago
Distorted Quality Signals: Evidence from School Markets in Chile by Felipe Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
The Impact of an Examination Board in Pakistan on Student Outcomes by Newman Burdett, National Foundation for Educational Research
Service Delivery Indicators by Deon Filmer, World Bank
Session 9 Panel: Reflections and the way forward for RISE
Luis Benveniste, World Bank
Robin Horn, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Elizabeth King, RISE directorate
Pauline Rose, University of Cambridge
Speaker Bios
- Kehinde Ajayi, Boston University
- Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Luis Benveniste, World Bank
- Moussa Blimpo, University of Oklahoma
- Newman Burdett, National Foundation for Educational Research
- L. Choon Wang, Monash University
- Vicky Colbert, Fundación Escuela Nueva
- Luis Crouch, RTI International
- Jishnu Das, World Bank
- Annie Duflo, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
- David Evans, World Bank
- Deon Filmer, World Bank
- Alec Gershberg, The New School, New York City
- Felipe Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
- James Habyarimana, Georgetown University
- Kara Hanson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Robin Horn, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
- Elizabeth King, RISE Directorate
- Michael Kremer, Harvard University
- Prashant Loyalka, Stanford University
- Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia
- Karthik Muralidharan, University of California at San Diego
- Derek Neal, University of Chicago
- Albert Park, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Lant Pritchett, Center for Global Development
- Pauline Rose, University of Cambridge
- Ben Ross Schneider, MIT
- Norbert Schady, Inter-American Development Bank
- Abhijeet Singh, University of Oxford
- Stephen Taylor, Department of Basic Education, South African Government
- Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University