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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.

Three universities have been picked to train 10 lakh Indians in climate work in collaboration with the South Asia branch of J-PAL.

J-PAL is assisting three universities with the India Data Capacity Accelerator, which envisions one million Indians trained in using data to solve climate and health-related challenges.

J-PAL North America is developing a strategic vision — informed by a new racial equity advisory committee — to advance inclusion, prioritize racial equity in research, and promote equitable and inclusive research practices in its network.