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In light of recent studies showing Covid-19 has contributed to higher domestic violence rates and higher numbers of women leaving the labor force or working unpaid, strategies are being pushed for by activists to improve gender equality and social and economic services for women in Indonesia.

Tutoring programs are discussed as potential ways to improve student learning and close gaps in academic achievement in light of Covid-19 in New York City, based on evidence from J-PAL North America's Tutoring Evidence Review which showed the positive effect that tutoring has on student academic...

The government of Punjab announced a collaboration with J-PAL South Asia in efforts to increase female empowerment and boost gender sensitization curriculum programs in schools.

Catherine Wolfram has been named to the US treasury department as deputy assistant secretary for climate and energy economics.

J-PAL's King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI) announces its first round of funded projects to generate evidence on the real-world effectiveness of policies and programs at the intersection of poverty and climate change.

In a new study, Esther Duflo, Ben Olken, Abhijit Banerjee, and Marcella Alsan find that improved public health messaging to Black, Latinx, and other communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic can increase Covid-19 knowledge and information-seeking in the United States. The study...