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February 2022 J-PAL North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's February newsletter features a new evidence review on sectoral employment programs, research results from a study of financial aid take-up, and ways we are leveraging tutoring evidence to inform federal policy conversations.

What can actually convince vaccine skeptics to get their shots

Vox
J-PAL affiliate Vincent Pons' new study assesses which messages are most effective in increasing people’s willingness to get vaccinated.

Pre-employment cards shown to improve recipients' know-how: Hartarto

Antara News
Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto shares the outcomes of a pre-employment card program conducted by J-PAL Southeast Asia and Rumah Presisi Indonesia.

Odisha: Students to learn gender equity in schools from this academic year

The New Indian Express
The Government of Odisha will begin a collaboration with J-PAL that will introduce a gender equity curriculum into Odisha schools during the 2022-2023 academic year.

End the pandemic of violence against women

Project Syndicate
J-PAL Senior Policy Associate Isabela Salgado writes with Vandana Sharma, a global health researcher at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on how to use evidence to target the root causes of violence against women.

February 2022 Newsletter

In the February 2022 newsletter, we highlight the launch of J-PAL’s newest sector, Social Protection, along with the Social Protection Initiative, the first-ever entrepreneurship and enterprise development-focused funding window of the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative, and the accomplishments of a...

Five vital signs for scaling your big idea

NPR
J-PAL affiliate John List shares lessons from his new book, "The Voltage Effect: How To Make Good Ideas Great And Great Ideas Scale," on how evidence can be used to inform policymaking at scale.

Norms that bind us: The free woman who walks in chains

Gazeti
J-PAL Policy and Research Advisor Joy Kiiru discusses research on gender norms in Kenya, funded by the Gender and Economic Agency Initiative.