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Researchers Find A Remarkable Ripple Effect When You Give Cash To Poor Families

J-PAL affiliate, Edward Miguel, discusses recent findings from an evaluation of unconditional cash transfers in Kenya

December 2019 Newsletter

J-PAL's December 2019 newsletter celebrates Nobel laureates, J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and longtime J-PAL affiliate Michael Kremer, welcomes twelve new affiliate professors, and discusses European Social Inclusion Initiative's first round of grant funding.

When a Disappointment Helped Lead to a Nobel Prize

J-PAL affiliate, Seema Jayachandran, discusses how Nobel laureates, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer, have learned from pioneering field experiments that sometimes did not work as expected.

A charity dropped a massive stimulus package on rural Kenya—and transformed the economy

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Vox Dev discusses results from J-PAL affiliate Edward Miguel and his co-authors on the evaluation of GiveDirectly's unconditional cash transfer program.

Odisha Govt Asks Employees to Take Online Courses on Better Governance

Odisha government asks employees to enroll in policy-oriented online courses offered by J-PAL and other institutions.

New research partnership evaluates innovation in family engagement

J-PAL North America is partnering with TalkingPoints multilingual family engagement platform assess the intervention's impact on student achievement.

Solutions for Economic Inequality from 2019 Nobel Prize Winners

J-PAL co-founders, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, discuss the trickiest global challenges on NPR's On Point.