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Stefano DellaVigna
Stefano DellaVigna is the Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in behavioral economics and is a co-director of the Initiative for Behavioral...
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Stefan Dercon
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David Deming
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Alejandro Ganimian
Alejandro J. Ganimian is an Education Post-Doctoral Fellow at J-PAL South Asia, where he works with Karthik Muralidharan (co-chair of J-PAL’s education program) and Esther Duflo (Scientific Director, J-PAL South Asia) to set a research agenda for education and human development, and develop new...
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David Molitor
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Mushfiq Mobarak
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a professor of economics at Yale University. He also co-chairs the Urban Services Initiative at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, and leads the Bangladesh Research Program for the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE and Oxford.
Event
Humanitarian Protection Initiative Scholars Information Session
This webinar was facilitated by the Humanitarian Protection Initiative (HPI), a new initiative focused on research questions on how to effectively improve humanitarian protection outcomes by keeping those who are affected by armed conflict safe from violence, coercion and deliberate deprivation...
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Karthik Muralidharan
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J-PAL Scholars and Fellows
J-PAL is invested in creating more opportunities for researchers from low- and middle-income countries to develop and drive the research agenda in their regions through the use of randomized evaluations.
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Randomised Evaluations in Humanitarian Action: A Learning Agenda for the Humanitarian Initiative
The Humanitarian Initiative’s Learning Agenda takes these questions as a starting point to then provide guidance on how randomised impact evaluations can be deployed in humanitarian settings and draw on examples from existing studies to inform avenues for future research.
Evaluation
Evaluating the Impact of Online Education in Russia
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact and cost-effectiveness of fully online and blended STEM classes in Russia on student test scores. Students in online and blended courses achieved similar scores to students in traditional in-person courses at a lower cost.
Evaluation
Evaluating the Impact of a Growth Mindset Intervention in Argentina
In Argentina, a researcher evaluated whether informing students of their potential could be a cost-effective way to increase motivation and improve educational outcomes among secondary school students. They found that the intervention did not impact students’ perceptions of the difficulty of school tasks, school climate, academic performance, or future education plans.
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Maria Fernanda Rosales Rueda
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Primrose Adjepong
Primrose is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Africa where she works with affiliates, policymakers and practitioners to apply evidence-based approaches to boost girls’ education enrolment and learning in West Africa.