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An international project to build community resilience to the effects of climate change, launched by Community Jameel and a research team at MIT, has been recognized as an innovation sprint at the 2023 summit of the United States’ and United Arab Emirates’ Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate...

Abhijit Banerjee spoke about the reforms aimed at combating poverty in Uzbekistan, focused on the tools used to create social programs, increasing the targeting of support for the poor, develop entrepreneurship, and understand the effectiveness of various programs adopted.

Bihar government’s model of bicycles to girls was successfully replicated in seven African countries, including Zambia, and was also endorsed by United Nations as a tool for increasing enrollment in schools and empowering women.

This article discusses how missing health costs are receiving increasing attention from policymakers at the national and international levels. Members of the Senate Budget Committee recently heard experts offer first-hand accounts about the many ways climate change is already stealing people’s...

The Center for Caregiver Advancement (CCA) has been awarded a $10 million grant from the California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to bring its caregiver training programs to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers in San Bernardino County...

A study by David Autor looked at the customer service department of a big software company, and it found that ChatGPT made workers much more productive. More interesting, most of those gains came from less skilled workers, while the more skilled workers showed only marginal improvement.

Recently, the French Education Minister, Pap Ndiaye, announced a potential education reform requiring private schools to diversify their student population to maintain public subsidies from the State. J-PAL affiliates Abhijeet Singh and Mauricio Romero analyzed the effect of this policy introduction...

Can we leverage near-universal access to mobile phones to improve mental health? J-PAL affiliates & other researchers aim to answer this question using evidence from Ghana and analyze what possible policy interventions could work to improve mental health in Africa.