Rachel Glennerster

So what... one of the things I've tried to do, um, as this has become really central to our work, is to say, is to, like, reframe that question about generalizability.

And this is just riffing off of stuff that Rachel Glennerster has written about mostly.

Under what conditions would a similar multiplier be expected to happen? And how many places in the world that GD could be working look like that? And that's a really empirically tractable question.

Is this number gonna travel, you know, to how many places and with what certainty? And so, you know, really what we're getting at there is mechanisms, and the way I think about and characterize this paper is that you have this one headline result that is, like, you know, two point four multiplier, and everyone goes, "Holy cow!" And everyone with a neoclassical education goes, "What?" Like...

I am joined by two guests today.

Kwame Akyeampong is professor of international education and development at the Open University and coauthor of the book, and Rachel Glennerster is president of the Center for Global Development.

What makes this conversation especially interesting is that both are members of the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel, which commissioned the Smart Buys 2023 report, arguably the field's best-known guide to what works in education.

Today we'll explore where Kwame's book and the evidence consensus agree and where they pull apart.

And I...

So what, one of the things I've tried to do, um, as this has become really central to our work, is to say, is to like reframe that question about generalizability, and this is just riffing off of stuff that Rachel Glennerster has written about mostly.

Under what conditions would a similar multiplier be expected to happen, and how many places in the world that GD could be working look like that? And that's a really empirically tractable question.

Is this number gonna travel, you know, to how many places and with what certainty? And so, you know, th- really what we're getting at there is mechanisms.