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Biography
Prashant Loyalka is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His research focuses on examining/addressing inequalities in the education of children and youth and on understanding/improving the quality of education received by children and youth in multiple countries including China, India, Russia, and the United States. He also conducts large-scale evaluations of educational programs and policies that seek to improve student outcomes.
Other titles
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Program affiliations
SHIPS (PhD)
Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
SHIPS (PhD): Economics of Education
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Data Science
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Policy
SHIPS (PhD): Higher Education
SHIPS (PhD): Social Sciences in Education
SHIPS (PhD): Global and Comparative Education
(MA) GCE/IEPA
(MS) EDS
Research interests
Artificial intelligence (AI) | Assessment & Evaluation | Civic Education | Collaborative Learning | Data Science | Data Science Education | Economics of Education | Education Policy | Education in the Global South | Educational Inequality | Gender & Education | Global and Comparative Education | Higher Education | Labor Markets | Measurement in Education | Moral, Character, and Purpose Development | Postsecondary Access | Quantitative Methods | STEM Education | Social-Emotional Learning | Teacher Professional Development | Youth Identity, Agency, and Voice
Recent publications
Farid, M., Loyalka, P., Felfe, C., & Mistree, D. (2026). Building capacity for unity in diversity. Nature Human Behaviour.
Bettinger, E., Fairlie, R., Kapuza, A., Kardanova, E., Loyalka, P., & Zakharov, A. (2022). Diminishing Marginal Returns to Computer-Assisted Learning. JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT.
Moon, K., Bergemann, P., Brown, D., Chen, A., Chu, J., Eisen, E. A., … Cohen, J. (2022). Manufacturing Productivity with Worker Turnover. MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.
