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Taking action on state and local policy priorities
This past fall, the J-PAL North America State and Local Innovation Initiative hosted a series of webinars to discuss how state and local governments can use lessons from randomized evaluations to address these timely policy challenges. The initiative seeks to take action on the conversations from...
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Paloma Artigas San Carlos
Paloma del Pilar Artigas San Carlos is a Project Associate at J-PAL LAC, where she works on the project "School-Parent Communication with SMS" which aims assess whether the provision of school information to parents by SMS would improve the scholarly performance of children.
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Reshaping Gender Attitudes to Promote Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: What Can We Learn from the Evidence?
J-PAL Southeast Asia is hosting a public webinar, “Reshaping Gender Attitudes to Promote Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: What Can We Learn from Evidence?” featuring H.E. I Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati (Minister of Women Empowerment and Child Protection of the Republic of Indonesia) as keynote...
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eGov Foundation partners with J-PAL South Asia to improve government service delivery in India through effective use of technology and data
eGovernments Foundation (eGov) is partnering with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab South Asia (J-PAL South Asia) to conduct research on improving public service delivery across Indian states through effective use of digital technology and data.
Evidence to Policy Case Study
Case study
Normalizing mask usage to combat Covid-19
A community-level mask distribution and promotion program tripled mask usage in Bangladesh and is now being scaled up in multiple countries, reaching almost 14 million people in South Asia.
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Register for the Reshaping Gender Attitudes to Promote Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: What Can We Learn from Evidence? webinar
Register for the Reshaping Gender Attitudes to Promote Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: What Can We Learn from Evidence? webinar
Evaluation
Attracting Talented Workers by Reducing Application Costs in Ethiopia
Researchers partnered with an employer in Addis Ababa to assess the impact of a small monetary incentive to apply for a job or a higher wage offer on the quality of applicants to a vacancy for a clerical position. Both of these changes increased the quality of applicants by similar amounts.
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Cash Transfers and Management Advice for Farmers in Senegal
In Senegal, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to study the effect of providing management advice and a one-time cash transfer on agricultural productivity and farmers’ investment in their businesses. Receiving both the cash transfer and management advice had positive impacts on yields and livestock as well as farmers’ investment in agricultural equipment, while receiving management advice only did not impact agricultural investments.
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Catalyzing the use of evidence for effective business training and finance in Egypt
Alison Fahey and Lobna Kassim reflect on the successful partnership between J-PAL MENA at AUC and the MSME Development Agency to create a culture of evidence-based program and policy design.
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Strengthening randomized evaluations with qualitative research: Baby’s First Years mothers' experiences
In this post, the researchers on the Baby's First Years study reflect on the value of qualitative research in both providing a deeper understanding of each participant’s background and context and painting a fuller picture of mothers’ experiences in the study.
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Building a robust evidence-based research community: Strengthening pathways for African researchers
Researchers from many groups, including women, people of color, and people from low- and middle-income countries, are underrepresented in the field of economics and face numerous barriers to their growth. We hold the conviction that research grounded in knowledge of the geographic and cultural...
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Community Driven Development in the Philippines
Community-based approaches to development, also called community-driven development (CDD), seek to empower local communities to identify and implement the projects they most need. Researchers evaluated the impact of a national community-driven development program in the Philippines on governance, social capital, and socio-economic welfare.
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Examining the Impact of Rainfall Insurance and Family Networks in Burkina Faso
Researchers partnered with IPA and PlaNet Guarantee to conduct a large-scale randomized evaluation that will measure demand for rainfall insurance among both urban migrants and rural households and its impact on the economic outcomes of the latter group.
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Instruction and Financial Incentives to Improve Covid-19 Knowledge in Mozambique
In Mozambique, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test whether teaching about Covid-19 prevention and/or financial learning incentives enhanced participants’ knowledge related to Covid-19. They found that both interventions improved Covid-19 knowledge separately and, moreover, financial incentives complemented teaching to further improve knowledge about Covid-19.