[1] He formerly was the Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy and served as co-chair of the education programme of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
[5] Glewwe's research generally focuses on the economics of education, poverty and inequality in developing countries, and applied econometrics.
[13] Earlier on, having found school characteristics in Ghana to be highly correlated with student achievement, e.g. via average grade attainment, Glewwe (with Jacoby) had argued that improvements to school quality, such as repairs of classrooms, may be a cost-effective investment into education in Ghana relative to the provision of more teaching materials and better trained teachers.
[14] More recently, Glewwe (with Albert Park and Meng Zhao) found that providing eyeglasses to children in primary school in rural China increases their learning, as measured by test scores, in Math, Chinese and Science.
Glewwe's other findings include the following: Finally, taking stock of the literature on the supply of education in developing countries, Glewwe (with Michael Kremer) criticizes that, although school enrollment rates have risen rapidly in the developing world between 1960 and 2000, dropout rates remain high and learning outcomes disappointing, and thus argues that the primary policy question should be which policies most effectively improve learning, with RCTs as the preferred tool to conduct that investigation.