Brian Stacy

Senior Economist, World Bank

Senior Economist at the World Bank working on the Human Capital Index Plus, statistical capacity, and development data. Research on measurement gaps, education, labor markets, nutrition, and poverty.

Brian Stacy

Brian Stacy is a Senior Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for People at the World Bank. His current work focuses on the Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+), flagship reports on human development, and a minimum data package for children, adolescents, and youth. Previously, he served as a data scientist with the Indicators and Data Services team in the World Bank’s Development Data Group, co-leading the Statistical Performance Indicators project and contributing to the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals and the World Development Indicators. He has also worked on the Global Education Policy Dashboard and Learning Poverty projects in the Education Global Practice.

His research interests include measurement and data gaps, economics of education, labor markets, nutrition, and poverty. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University.

Selected work

Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+)

App

Interactive app exploring how health, education, and jobs shape lifetime earnings across countries. Current flagship work.

Statistical Performance Indicators

Paper

A new tool measuring the statistical capacity of national statistical systems worldwide. Published in Scientific Data, with code and data open.

Enrollment without Learning: Teacher Effort, Knowledge, and Skill in Primary Schools in Africa

Paper

Journal of Economic Perspectives study of what teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa actually know and do in the classroom.

Atlas of Global Development: Learning and Work

Visualization

Interactive chapter on how skills are built and used on the job, from the World Bank’s Atlas of Global Development.

Missing SDG Gender Indicators

Paper

World Development article on the large gaps in gender data reported against the Sustainable Development Goals.

Data use in social science and medical articles around the world

Paper

PNAS Nexus study tracking how national statistics are actually used in academic research worldwide.

See all publications, interactive visualizations, and blog posts.

Selected work

Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+)

Statistical Performance Indicators

Enrollment without Learning: Teacher Effort, Knowledge, and Skill in Primary Schools in Africa

Atlas of Global Development: Learning and Work

Missing SDG Gender Indicators

Data use in social science and medical articles around the world

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