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J-PAL North America announces new evaluation incubator collaborators from state and local governments

MIT News
Selected LEVER collaborators will work with the organization to develop an evaluation of their respective programs that alleviate poverty.

Infosys Science Foundation announces prize winners for 2024

The Hindu
The Infosys Prize 2024 in Economics is awarded to Arun Chandrasekhar, Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, for his contribution to the study of social and economic networks, using innovative data sets and drawing on theoretical methods from machine learning and computer science.

Soft Skills: The missing piece in employability

Hindustan Times
To harness potential of its youth, India must reimagine employability, particularly in context of AI, and invest in teaching methods that leverage technology

November 2024 Newsletter

In the November 2024 newsletter celebrate the Nobel Prize in Economics, learn about training civil servants on impact evaluations in Côte d'Ivoire, and read how credible skills signals can improve employment and earnings for job seekers.

Cash Incentives Boost Insurance Enrollment but Fail to Secure Long-Term Retention in Thailand

Devdiscourse
A study on Thailand’s social insurance program found that cash incentives significantly boosted enrollment among informal workers, but retention was low, as many valued the immediate cash benefit over long-term insurance.

The Inter-American Development Bank and J-PAL LAC Launch Collaborative Visiting Program to Foster Evidence-Based Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Latin America and the Caribbean (J-PAL LAC) have officially launched a new Visiting Researcher Program, marking a new phase in the strategic collaboration between the two entities.

What Happens When an AI Assistant Helps the Tutor, Instead of the Student

EducationWeek
An AI-powered tutoring assistant increased human tutors’ capacity to help students through math problems and improved students’ performance in math, according to a Stanford University study.

How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum

Nature
Why we must treat decarbonization policies as an experiment and put in place measures now to evaluate what works best.