Working Papers
"Preparation, Practice, and Beliefs: A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Teacher Effectiveness" with Natsal Vahata and Shwetlena Sabarwal. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9847 and RISE Working Paper 21/084. November 2021.
"How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Comparison of 150 Interventions Using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric" with Noam Angrist, David K. Evans, Rachel Glennerster, Halsey Rogers, and Shwetlena Sabarwal. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9450. October 2020.
"Identifying Effective Teachers : Lessons from Four Classroom Observation Tools" with Ezequiel Molina and Waly Wane. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9365 and RISE Working Paper 20/045. August 2020. Supplementary materials: Appendix 2 available here; Additional regression results available here. RISE Insight Note.
"Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics" with others. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9133. January 2020.
"The Lost Human Capital: Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa" with Tessa Bold, Ezequiel Molina, Jakob Svensson. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8849. May 2019. (Previous version: Center for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper 12956. May 2018.)
"What do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter?" with Tessa Bold, Gayle Martin, Ezequiel Molina, Brian Stacy, Christophe Rockmore, Jakob Svensson and Waly Wane. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7956. January 2017.
"Impact evaluation of three types of early childhood development interventions in Cambodia" with Sophie Naudeau, Karen Macours, and Adrien Bouguen. Policy Research Working Paper 6540. July 2013.
"School enrollment, selection and test scores : School enrollment, selection and test scores" with Norbert Schady. Research Working Paper 4998. July 2009.
“A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education” with Amer Hasan and Lant Pritchett. Center for Global Development Working Paper 97. August 2006.
"Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons between and within countries" with Elizabeth M. King and Lant Pritchett. Policy Research Working Paper 186. January 1998.
"Estimating the world at work." Policy Research Working Paper 1488. July 1995.
“Schooling and Cognitive Outcomes in Morocco: Can the Government Improve Outcomes?” with Shahidur Khandker and Victor Lavy. World Bank Discussion Paper No. 264. 1994.