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May 2017 Newsletter

Read a new policy bulletin summarizing results from seventeen evaluations of charter schools, learn how evidence helped scale unconditional cash transfers to reach over 60,000 households in east Africa, and more.

Blog: Michael Greenstone testifies to Congress on the social cost of carbon

“Ultimately, society needs to balance the costs to our economy of mitigating climate change today with climate damages. Wishing that we did not face this tradeoff will not make it go away.” J-PAL affiliate Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago and EPIC) testified to Congress on how policymakers...