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Head of the Department of Education Reform and 21st Century Endowed Chair in Education Policy.
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Harry Anthony Patrinos' research focuses on the economics of education, with particular emphasis on school-based management, demand-side financing, and public-private partnerships. He is the Head of the Department of Education Reform and holds the 21st Century Endowed Chair in Education Policy at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His previous experience includes serving as Senior Adviser, Education at the World Bank.
His work has addressed significant global educational challenges, including learning loss experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrinos has contributed to studies estimating global learning loss using comparable reading scores and analyzing the economic costs of school closures on earnings and income worldwide. He has also been involved in developing datasets for measuring human capital through global learning data and examining the private rates of return to schooling across the globe. His publications include a systematic review of learning loss during COVID-19 and analyses of improving learning in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
Patrinos leads a research group and maintains an active lab website. He has an h-index of 47, with over 387 publications and 11,603 citations, designating him as a highly cited researcher. He remains actively engaged in research, with recent activity noted in 2025.
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- h-index: 48
- Publications: 387
- Citations: 11,723
Selected Publications
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Causal Returns to Education (2025)
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Learning during the pandemic: Evidence from Uzbekistan (2025)
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The returns to education over time and the effect of covid-19 (2025)
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The Learning Crisis in the United States Three Years after Covid-19 (2025)
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The Learning Crisis: Three Years after Covid-19 (2024)
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PIRLS 2021 and PISA 2022 Statistics Show How Serious the Pandemic Losses Are (2024)
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Top Collaborators
- Global learning loss in student achievement: First estimates using comparable reading scores
- COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA
- COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes. New global evidence from PISA
- Covid-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA
- Evaluation of Educational Loss in Europe and Central Asia
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- Global learning loss in student achievement: First estimates using comparable reading scores
- COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA
- COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes. New global evidence from PISA
- Covid-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA
- Capturing the Educational and Economic Impacts of School Closures in Poland
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
- Measuring human capital using global learning data
- Improving Learning in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico
- Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
- Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
- Do supply-side-oriented and demand-side-oriented educational interventions generate synergies?
- Impact evaluation for school based management reforms
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Human Capital and Climate Change
- Improving Learning in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
- The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures in Earnings and Income across the World
- Causal Returns to Education
- Causal Returns to Education
- Improving Learning in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
- An Analysis of COVID-19 Student Learning Loss
- The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures in Earnings and Income across the World
- An Analysis of COVID-19 Student Learning Loss
- Do supply-side-oriented and demand-side-oriented educational interventions generate synergies?
- Impact evaluation for school based management reforms
- Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
- Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
- Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
- Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
- Learning loss during Covid-19: An early systematic review
- Learning Loss During COVID-19: An Early Systematic Review
- Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing
- Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing
- A data set of comparable estimates of the private rate of return to schooling in the world, 1970–2014
- Returns to Education in the Public and Private Sectors: Europe and Central Asia
- An Analysis of COVID-19 Student Learning Loss
- An Analysis of COVID-19 Student Learning Loss
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