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Nurturing the null: Leveraging unexpected null results to improve case management for housing services

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Kimberly Dodds, homeless prevention program manager in King County, Washington, discusses her experience discovering that their program had null results and how they were used to improve the Youth Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative.
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Nurturing the null: Navigating Evaluation Challenges in Community-Based Care Management

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  • Aaron Truchil
  • Dawn Wiest
  • Kathleen Noonan
In this piece, originally published in American Society on Aging’s Generations, Aaron Truchil, Dawn Wiest, and Kathleen Noonan of the Camden Coalition discuss their experience finding and learning from null results.
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Nurturing the null: Preparing for null results to bolster evidence use

Null results—finding no impact—can be particularly difficult for researchers, policymakers, and service providers to act on. In this blog post, we share three key considerations for successfully designing studies and acting on null results.
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J-PAL LAC 15: Expandiendo programas de desarrollo infantil temprano informados por evidencia

As we mark fifteen years of J-PAL’s Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) office, we are recapping key milestones and sharing what we have learned in a new blog series. The series highlights lessons from working with those who make our mission a reality: our donors, implementing partners, J-PAL...
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Building a worldwide Alliance for Data, Evaluation, and Policy Training

The Alliance for Data, Evaluation, and Policy Training (ADEPT) is a new effort led by J-PAL together with universities, training institutions, and other actors to empower researchers and decision-makers to use evidence to solve complex policy problems.
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Exploring the role of positionality in economics research

J-PAL North America convened a small group of researchers to ask how we might consider positionality within a quantitative research setting.
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Test, learn, adapt: Maximizing impact through continuous rapid evaluation

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  • Hannah Ornas
  • Phillip Okull
  • Meghan Mahoney
In this guest blog, staff from Educate!, a youth employment organization in East Africa, share how they incorporate learnings from randomized evaluations into their program design and implementation.
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African Scholar Spotlight: Zakayo Zakaria

This post is part of our ongoing series showcasing the work and perspectives of economists from the African continent who are leading randomized evaluations. Through our African Scholars Program, we hope to help create more opportunities for African researchers to advance the research agenda on the...