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Five State and Local Governments Selected for J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative

Selected state and local governments will receive support from J-PAL North America at MIT to create and use evidence to improve the effectiveness of their social programs.

May 2016 Newsletter

Innovate, test, scale: Lab to improve education policy in Peru | Peace, recovery, and reconciliation: Randomized evaluations in post-conflict environments | Identifying the poor through self-targeting | J-PAL welcomes new affiliated professors

Innovate, test, learn: Lab to improve education policy in Peru

Can a video reduce dropout and improve educational performance? Peru’s Ministry of Education (Minedu) is using its wealth of administrative data to quickly and inexpensively assess whether simple innovations can improve education outcomes through the Laboratory of Cost-Effective Innovations in...