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Noam Angrist is the Academic Director of the What Works Hub for Global Education at the University of Oxford as well as the co-founder of Youth Impact, one of the largest NGOs dedicated to scaling-up health and education programs backed by randomized trial evidence. In addition to scaling proven programs with governments, Youth Impact conducts regular, rapid A/B tests to optimize cost-effectiveness of programs on the path to scale. Angrist has published in leading academic journals including Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Angrist developed key components of the World Bank Human Capital Index and co-led research underpinning the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel. Angrist holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.
Recent work by Noam Angrist
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The gap between education policy and practice
There are large gaps between policy and practice in education. New systematic analysis shines a light on this 'policy-practice' gap in 50 countries during COVID-19 and motivates increased focus on policy implementation.
Published 03.10.24
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Implementation matters: Measure it and account for it
Implementation metrics explain much of the difference in effectiveness for a set of education programmes across studies and settings, playing a key role in generalisability
Published 10.01.24
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Educating children in emergencies: Global evidence from five randomised trials
Education emergencies require resilient solutions: A cheap phone tutoring programme can be highly effective across contexts, emergency types, and implementer profiles, pointing to its potential scalability
Published 24.08.23