Tara Béteille

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Tara Béteille
Lead Economist,
The World Bank

Tara Béteille is the World Bank's lead economist and human development program leader for the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, based in Manila. She previously served as program leader for Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. She is the former global lead for the World Bank’s Teachers Thematic Group. Her operational expertise spans early childhood education, teacher labor markets, skills development, higher education, and the political economy of education. Her research interests include teacher labor markets, education reform politics, and higher education, with publications in Education Finance and Policy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Human Behaviour. She was also a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Béteille earned an MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, an MA in economics from Stanford University, and a PhD in the economics of education from Stanford University.

updated 2025

Contributing topics
Continuous school improvement & support
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
COVID-19 Recovery
Tara Béteille in the Media
: Supporting Teachers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
: Building an Information System to Support Continuous Improvement in California Public Schools
: How to Fix Poor Quality Education in South Asia
: Stanford Researchers Identify Troubling Patterns of Teacher Assignments within Schools
Publications by Tara Béteille
Systematic Sorting: Teacher Characteristics and Class Assignments
Systematic Sorting
Teacher Characteristics and Class Assignments
This study examines teacher sorting within schools in a large urban district. It finds that less experienced, minority, and female teachers are assigned lower-achieving students than their more experienced, white, and male colleagues. The authors…
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Building an Information System to Support Continuous Improvement in California Public Schools
California needs to improve its education data system to collect and use vital school information for continuous improvement. The state is behind in data collection, management, evaluation, and funding compared to other states. The report suggests…