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MIT’s J-PAL North America launches state and local innovation initiative

“The new J-PAL initiative is a fantastic opportunity for governments who want to better understand the impact of their programs,” said Linda Gibbs, Principal at Bloomberg Associates and former New York City Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services. Learn more about J-PAL North America's State and...

eNews - October 2015

New initiative offers US policymakers funding and technical expertise to solve key social problems | J-PAL hosts two training courses in the Middle East | Shawn Cole receives Aspen Faculty Pioneer Award

Moving beyond microcredit

The New Yorker features findings on microcredit from independent randomized evaluations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Mongolia, and Morocco, and published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics last January. "The researchers concluded that, in all six countries...