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Halsey Rogers

Halsey Rogers

Lead Economist, Education Global Practice and served as Co-Director of the World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education¡¯s Promise

Halsey Rogers is Lead Economist with the World Bank¡¯s Education Global Practice and served as Co-Director of the .  He now helps lead initiatives that advance the WDR vision, including the global Learning Poverty estimates and the Global Education Policy Dashboard. 

In the past, he represented the Bank in SDG negotiations on education, led the Bank¡¯s global teacher-policy research, and co-authored the Bank¡¯s .  Rogers has in peer-reviewed journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and has advised governments in every region of the world.  He works on the quality of service delivery in education, teacher effectiveness, outcome and process metrics, families¡¯ education investments, aid effectiveness, and development strategy, among other topics.  He also co-authored (MIT Press).  

Previously, Rogers served as advisor to former World Bank chief economists Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern and as senior economist in the Bank¡¯s research department.  Prior to joining the Bank, he served with the Council of Economic Advisors at the White House, UC Berkeley, the Indonesian Ministry of Finance (Jakarta), and the Korea Development Institute (Seoul).  He holds an AB from Princeton University, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley.


Featured Research
  • World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10218, 2022 (with Joao Pedro Wagner De Azevedo, Maryam Akmal, Marie-Helene Cloutier, and Yi Ning Wong).
  • Economics of Education Review 77, 2020 (with Deon Filmer, Noam Angrist, and Shwetlena Sabarwal).
  • World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9450, 2020 (with Noam Angrist, David K. Evans, Deon Filmer, Rachel Glennerster, and Shwetlena Sabarwal).
  • Quarterly Journal of Economics 133(2), 2018 (with Joppe de Ree, Karthik Muralidharan, and Menno Pradhan).
  • Washington, DC: Å·ÃÀÈÕb´óƬ and Oxford University Press, 2018 (with Deon Filmer, Samer Al-Samarrai, Magdalena Bendini, Tara B¨¦teille, David Evans, M?rt Kivine, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Alexandria Valerio, Malek Abu-Jawdeh, Bradley Robert Larson, Unika Shrestha, and Fei Yuan).
Contact
Tel : +1-202-473-6292
Hrogers@worldbank.org

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • Education