
Jishnu Das
Professor of Public Policy, McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Jishnu Das is a distinguished professor of public policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Jishnu’s work focuses on health and education in low and middle-income countries. He has co-developed one of the largest and longest-running cohort study on learning outcomes in low-income countries and led an agenda on quality of healthcare in low-income countries. His research led to the widespread adoption of a training program for informal providers (in West Bengal), health facility inspections (in Kenya), networks for private sector providers (in India), the scale-up of quality measurement tools in health (global) and the development of financial products for private schools (global). He was also part of the team that developed India’s federal inpatient health insurance scheme, the RSBY, which reached 150 million people in 2016. Jishnu helped write the World Development Report on Gender and Development (2012) and in 2015 he was the Flander’s Visiting Professor at McGill University. He has received the George Bereday Award from the Comparative and International Education Society, the Stockholm Challenge Award for the best ICT project in the public administration category in 2006 and the Research Academy award from the World Bank in 2017 and 2013 for research on health and education. He was a member of the Lancet Commission on Covid-19 in India and a member of the state of West Bengal’s global advisory board for Covid-19. He holds degrees in economics from St. Stephen’s College (Delhi), Cambridge (U.K.) and Harvard University (USA).
Recent work by Jishnu Das
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Higher education in low- and middle-income countries
What do we know, and what do we need to know, about higher education in low- and middle-income countries?
Published 03.04.24
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How government regulation can improve healthcare: Evidence from Kenya
Health sector regulation in Kenya increased the compliance of health facilities with a checklist of patient safety measures without any increase in prices or decrease in utilisation
Published 20.07.23
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The education spending multiplier: Evidence from schools in Pakistan
Grants given to public schools in Pakistan increase test scores in both public and private schools as a result of increased competition
Published 03.04.23
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The labour market for teachers in Pakistan: Pay and effectiveness
Teachers determine the quality of student learning; however, teacher effectiveness is difficult to predict and does not necessarily correlate to wages
Published 08.09.17
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The power of information in improving school performance
Giving parents information on the performance of schools in Pakistan improved test scores and enrolment, and reduced the cost of private school tuition
Published 26.06.17