Yyannú Cruz-Aguayo, is senior economist in the IDB Labor Market Division. She is a specialist in impact assessments of social programs and recently co-led the research agenda on the impact of teacher quality on learning outcomes in early schooling. She has worked at the World Bank, Banco Nacional de Mexico and the Ministry of Finance of that country. She is author and co-author of academic articles (in journals such…
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Tracy is an Analyst in the World Bank Group’s Education Global Practice, researching how teacher professional development interventions can be designed to improve student learning in low- and middle-income countries. In this capacity, she provides support to projects in Africa and South Asia. Previously, she designed and managed development projects for technology startups, social enterprises,…
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Roisin P. Corcoran is Chair in Education and Professor at the University of Nottingham. She is a chartered psychologist (CPsychol), and was named a Fellow (FBPsS) of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Prior to her appointment at the University of Nottingham, she was an Associate Professor at UCD, an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins…
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Jacobus Cilliers is an Assistant Teaching Professor at McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. His research is in the area of applied micro-econometrics for development, with a focus on education. He is currently contributing to multiple field experiments across sub-Saharan Africa. Previous research investigated post-conflict reconciliation in Sierra Leone (published in Science…
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Matthew Kraft is an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Brown University. His research and teaching interests include the economics of education, education policy analysis, and applied quantitative methods for causal inference. He studies human capital policies in education with a focus on teacher effectiveness and organizational change in K-12 urban public schools. He has published…
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Arantxa is a health economist currently working as an associate professor at the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico. She is national researcher II by the National System of Researchers (CONACYT Mexico), and Researcher E by the National Institutes of Health. She earned her PhD degree in Health Systems Research at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. President of the Health Economics…
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Anna Gelpern is an Agnes N. Williams Research Professor at Georgetown Law and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. She has published research on government debt, contracts, and regulation of financial institutions and markets. She co-authored a law textbook on International Finance, and has contributed to international initiatives on…
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Kai Ryssdal is an American radio journalist and the host of Marketplace, a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations. He also co-hosts the spinoff podcast Make Me Smart with Molly Wood. Marketplace is produced by American Public Media. Ryssdal took over in August 2005, replacing David Brown. Before hosting Marketplace, he was host of the Marketplace Morning Report, a…
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Hernan Winkler , is a Senior Economist in the Jobs Group at the World Bank. He specializes in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on labor market issues and the sources and consequences of inequality and poverty. He has been an author and part of the core teams of several World Bank flagship reports. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Review of Economics and…
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Bob Rijkers, is a Senior Economist in the Trade and International Integration Unit of the Development Research Group. He is interested in political economy, trade and labor market issues. Since joining the World Bank full-time in 2008, he has worked in the Poverty Reduction Anchor of the PREM network, the Macroeconomics and Growth Unit of the Development Economics Research Group and the Office of the Chief…
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