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Launching the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative African Scholars Program
J-PAL’s Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (JOI) is excited to launch its African Scholars program beginning in the Fall 2021 request for proposal round, which will offer research funding to African scholars (individuals who have completed their PhD in Economics or a related field who are based at an...
Evaluation
Providing information on wood heating to decrease indoor air pollution in France
Researchers evaluated the impact of general and personalized information regarding the relationship between wood burning and indoor pollution on households’ knowledge of pollution and their pollution mitigation efforts. Both general and personalized information increased households’ awareness of pollution, but only personalized information improved households’ measured air quality.
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Alumni Voices: Reimagining how innovation funders measure and value gender impacts
Rachna Nag Chowdhuri ‘13 (former research manager at J-PAL South Asia) discusses her work at the Global Innovation Fund to reimagine how funders measure and value impact on gender equality outcomes.
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Navigating Indonesia’s post-pandemic era: Addressing opportunity, inequality, and growth
J-PAL SEA recently hosted a webinar aimed at providing insights into the Government of Indonesia’s policy directions and learnings from global evidence on challenges faced in different sectors. Read the key takeaways from the discussion.
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Juliette Seban, J-PAL ’12, on driving forward development innovation at France’s FID
As a former research manager at J-PAL Europe, Juliette Seban managed several randomized evaluations while pursuing a PhD in development economics. Juliette is now the executive director of France’s new Fund for Innovation in Development (FID). She reflects on her PhD experience, her work at J-PAL...
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Jamie Simonson
Jamie Simonson is a Policy Associate at J-PAL North America, where he primarily supports work in the education sector to develop and disseminate rigorous evidence on policies that impact students experiencing poverty.
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Beyond causality: Additional benefits of RCTs for improving health care delivery
J-PAL affiliates Marcella Alsan and Amy Finkelstein highlight four key benefits of randomized evaluations that are useful for addressing pressing health policy questions, drawing from their recent Milbank Quarterly article.
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Samantha Carter, J-PAL ‘20, on bringing innovative ideas to life
As a former senior policy associate at J-PAL Global, Samantha Carter played a leading role in managing J-PAL’s government scale-up initiative and the finance sector within the policy team. Now a research and operations manager at Precision Development (PxD), she works to take innovative ideas out of...
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Hotspotting and police engagement to reduce crime and police violence in Latin America
How can we make cities safer? Unlike institutional systems like education or healthcare, which regularly collect data on activities and outcomes, crime can be more difficult to track or measure due to its concealed nature. Moreover, while crime is rampant in some countries, little is known about how...
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Policy insight
Designing information campaigns to increase adoption of healthy behaviors
Accurate information can help people determine which behaviors lead to improved health outcomes, but information alone is not necessarily sufficient to motivate adoption of these behaviors. When the primary barrier to the adoption of a healthy behavior is lack of awareness, information that is...
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Nurturing the next generation of Indonesian development economists
J-PAL Southeast Asia is building a cadre of local researchers and policy practitioners in development economics and strengthening the use of rigorous evidence in policymaking.
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Better policies to support entrepreneurs and create more jobs: A new focus on adaptation and scale
J-PAL’s Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (JOI) is expanding its scope to test promising strategies to help meet the jobs challenge through entrepreneurship and firm growth.