OUR RESEARCH IN THE MEDIA

June 26, 2025

Check out this article featuring our lead PIs—Jishnu Das, Asim Khwaja, and Tahir Andrabi—on how impact investing in education can deliver both financial and social returns.

June 23, 2025

Hear from Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, and more as they explore the power of impact investing in global education and what it means for thriving schools.

November 29, 2024

A conversation with our lead PI Jishnu Das and James Habyarimana on Education, Health and Economic Development

November 16, 2024

Check out lead PI Jishnu Das’s insightful take on the big debates shaping education policy.

June 30, 2024

Jishnu Das outlines five reasons why the answer is “Yes.”

April 25, 2024

Jishnu Das argues development economics has always been at its best when fighting for social justice and intellectual rigor.

April 8, 2024

Grant funding supports economics professor Tahir Andrabi’s work to improve schools in Pakistan—and worldwide

March 3, 2024

Jishnu Das asks: If you go to college in a low- or middle-income country (LMIC), how does it help you, and what do you get from it?

March 1, 2024

What is the fairest and most efficient way to improve not just access to education, but outcomes too? Asim Khwaja and Emiliana Vegas discuss.

February 18, 2024

A story of college-going is emerging from the research in low- and middle-income countries.

November 4, 2023

Emiliana Vegas and Asim Khwaja highlight the importance on focusing on the process and frugal innovation rather than products and one-size fits all reforms.

June 6, 2023

Jishnu Das explains how market dynamics affect the performance of public and private schools.

April 3, 2023

Grants given to public schools in Pakistan increase test scores in both public and private schools as a result of increased competition.

January 10, 2023

Afghanistan is now the only country in the world that bans girls from going to school. E-learning could help overcome this unfolding tragedy.

December 1, 2022

Jishnu Das discusses the RISE Pakistan team's ambitious research into investigating how the education system can change to ensure all children learn.

September 26, 2022

Technology uptake is not trivial, contrary to what some in policy circles may believe.

September 8, 2022

College attendance remains low for children from poor socioeconomic backgrounds even as labour market returns to college education have increased.

September 4, 2022

Tahir Andrabi unpacks the stages of disaster recovery that Pakistan will go through based on his experience with the 2005 earthquake.

August 11, 2022

Major disasters are frequently followed by compensation or aid, but little is known about recovery from such large, but compensated, shocks.

February 18, 2022

Asim I. Khwaja gives the second lecture in the IGC BREAD course giving examples in system-level interventions.

February 17, 2022

Jishnu Das gives the first of two lectures on Education Markets as part of the IGC BREAD Virtual PhD Course.

July 16, 2021

A narrative that suggests children drop out of school because they are not learning is not supported by the data.

June 8, 2021

Our new paper uses the LEAPS dataset to explore the drivers of low levels of education in low-income countries such as Pakistan.

May 20, 2021

LEAPS Research helps bust the myth that Pakistan’s private schools are only accessible to the wealthy elite.

March 30, 2021

PI Jishnu Das presents evidence from our two decades of work on education in Pakistan and explain our unique approach to research.

March 1, 2021

LEAPS Director Zainab Qureshi discusses the consequences of COVID-19 on low-cost private schools in Pakistan.

February 19, 2021

Dr. Razzaque warns against undermining the private school market at a time when it’s already suffering due to COVID-19.

February 8, 2021

Performance pay contracts attract teachers who improve both test score and non-test score outcomes for students.

January 31, 2021

Newly mandated national curriculum textbooks have upended private schooling, delaying the start of the Pakistani school year.

December 16, 2020

Student learning levels have been set back by months due to the pandemic. The most marginalized children are most affected.

June 9, 2020

COVID-19 has shut down traditional education programs throughout South Asia. This panel discusses the unique challenges the region is facing.

May 19, 2020

The kings and queens of the data modelling profession are now empirical economists, but what does that mean?

May 15, 2020

Prolonged school closures without innovative alternatives will hurt the vulnerable, exacerbating existing inequalities.

Feb 26, 2020

Learn about the education landscape in Pakistan and the evolution of the growing LEAPS education portfolio at CERP.

December 6, 2019

CID Speaker Series podcast features Zainab Qureshi, LEAPS Director, to discuss student learning outcomes in Pakistan.

May 8, 2019

When so many reforms are developed independently, they are prone to contradict each other and can fail to improve learning.

September 22, 2017

Our paper on report cards shows that giving parents information about how their child’s school compares to others in the area improves education quality.

August 9, 2017

Teachers determine the quality of student learning; however, teacher effectiveness is difficult to predict and does not necessarily correlate to wages.

January 29, 2016

Education is increasingly becoming an extremist battleground in Pakistan, which does not bode well for the country’s future.

August 1, 2015

Where governments are failing to provide students with a decent education, the low-cost schools are stepping in.

December 11, 2014

Through market-driven schools, young Pakistani women are gaining access to both education and employment opportunities.

May 19, 2005

The concerns about the boom in religious schooling in Pakistan are overstated - proportionally, enrolment in Madrasas is actually decreasing.