Education and Skills

Supported by the King Center, a global network led by Stanford education professor Jelena Obradović works to help promote executive function skills in children around the world.

Faculty Affiliate Eric Hanushek speaks on the Top Class podcast about how smarter public spending on education would improve learning outcomes and make societies better off.

Faculty Affiliate Patricia Bromley speaks on a FreshEd podcast about the World Education Reform Database she co-developed.

In VoxDev, Faculty Affiliate Eric Hanushek and co-authors address questions around the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal of universal quality education.

Incoming Faculty Director Katherine Casey discusses if delegation to technocrats or inclusive decision-making can improve local development outcomes in Sierra Leone.

Professor Pascaline Dupas' research on the link between health and education in India is featured in APN News.

Faculty Affiliate Erik Jensen discusses the state of legal education in Afghanistan amid the withdrawal of troops from the still struggling country.

In China, the college entrance exam score is predictive for both firm success and wage-job success in the future, yet higher-score individuals are less likely to create firms.

High scorers in the gaokao go to better universities and earn higher wages says Faculty Affiliate Hongbin Li.

People are less likely to ask questions in their communities if it exposes the limits of their knowledge, says Faculty Affiliate Arun Chandrasekhar.

Faculty Affiliate Scott Rozelle explains why China’s wealth gap may make the transition from a middle- to high-income country more difficult than it seems.

Evidence from Ethiopia shows that interning in a management role for a month leads to higher wage earnings and can help some people run profitable businesses.

Faculty Affiliate Scott Rozelle is quoted in the LA Times about the nearly 70 million Chinese children who are "left behind" in China's education system.