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Gabriel Ulyssea
Research resource
Introduction to randomized evaluations
This resource gives an overview and non-technical introduction to randomized evaluations. Randomized evaluations can be used to measure impact in policy research: to date, J-PAL affiliated researchers have conducted more than 1,100 randomized evaluations studying policies in ten thematic sectors in...
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Alejandro Noriega
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Andrea Salas
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Mica Chua
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Imran Rasul
Imran Rasul is a Professor in the Department of Economics at University College London. His areas of interest focus on labor economics and household economics.
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Nurul Fadilah
Initiative
Displaced Livelihoods Initiative (DLI)
The IKEA Foundation is supporting the J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to generate and share new evidence on the impacts of livelihoods programs for displaced populations and host communities.
Evaluation
Electronic Food Vouchers and Poverty Reduction in Indonesia
In partnership with the Government of Indonesia, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to compare the efficacy of vouchers versus in-kind transfers in reducing poverty and improving program delivery. The reform led to an increase in assistance received by eligible households, due to improved targeting. As a result, poverty fell by 20 percent among the poorest households.
Evaluation
Creating a Toilet Habit in Kenya
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Paul Berthe
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Temidire Alesh
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Kate Orkin
Kate Orkin is a faculty member in economics and public policy at the University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government.
Blog
Field notes: The power of community partnerships for scaling learning interventions
The world has made tremendous progress in getting children into schools. Not so much in making them learn. In India, which has one of the biggest school systems in the world, nearly every eligible child receives primary education. But almost half of 10-year-olds struggle to read a simple story by...
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