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May 2018 Newsletter

J-PAL announces new library of Policy Insights, a partnership to expand access to higher education for refugees, and more

For food-aid recipients, information is power

Research by Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Ben Olken, and Sudarno Sumarto finds that distributing a simple card explaining a government aid program leads to poor villagers in Indonesia receiving more of the subsidized rice they are entitled to.