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Una reflexión sobre la investigación en tiempos de incertidumbre: Recordando la graduación de EDUGESPRO en Puerto Rico

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J-PAL Norte América y todo su personal, incluidos los investigadores asistieron recientemente a la ceremonia de graduación de los directores escolares que participaron en EDUGESPRO, un programa de desarrollo profesional que surgió del trabajo de investigación realizado en sociedad con el...
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Evidence for digital and bundled services: Framing a research agenda for the Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative

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As the reach of digital agricultural services has grown rapidly within the last few years, building an evidence base on how these services should be designed, implemented, and scaled to best align with the priorities of small-scale producers is an important and timely issue—and one that J-PAL's...
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From RCT data to survey instruments: how to find what you need on the J-PAL Dataverse

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This post is the first in a two-part series to highlight both why and how to use the J-PAL Dataverse. The goal of this first post is to provide a user-friendly guide to access our data, and a starter menu of use cases of data from randomized control trials (RCTs) for students, researchers, teachers...
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Investing in students early: The effects of a STEM pipeline program for underrepresented high school students

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The research team behind a rigorous, long-term evaluation of a STEM program for high schoolers discusses their new working paper & key findings, including a significant increase in graduation rates for program participants.
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Affiliate Spotlight: Sandip Sukhtankar on his path to becoming a economist and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration

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Sandip Sukhtankar is an associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia. He serves on the board of J-PAL’s Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI Africa) and co-directs the Payments and Governance Research Program (PGRP) hosted at J-PAL South Asia. Sandip’s...
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Lessons from gender-sensitive police reform in India: A Q&A with Sandip Sukhtankar on his new paper in Science

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J-PAL affiliate Sandip Sukhtankar shares learnings, policy insights, and scaling plans related to a large-scale evaluation of gender-sensitive police reforms in Madhya Pradesh, India, published in July 2022 in Science.
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Mejorando el acceso a las microfinanzas en Chile: Lecciones de una sólida colaboración con Fondo Esperanza

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Durante 4 años, la institución microfinanciera chilena Fondo Esperanza ha fortalecido una estrecha colaboración con la afiliada a J-PAL Natalia Rigol, el afiliado a J-PAL Benjamin Roth, y su equipo de investigación. Un documento de trabajo publicado recientemente ha resultado de la fructífera...
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How government, academic, and nonprofit partners are working to evaluate a home visiting program in South Carolina to improve family health and wellbeing

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Jordan Desai (South Carolina Department of Health Human Services) ; William Thorland, (National Service Office for Nurse-Family Partnership and Child First); and Margaret McConnell (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) discuss the rigorous evaluation of the Nurse-Family Partnership program in...