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How government, academic, and nonprofit partners are working to evaluate a home visiting program in South Carolina to improve family health and wellbeing
Jordan Desai (South Carolina Department of Health Human Services) ; William Thorland, (National Service Office for Nurse-Family Partnership and Child First); and Margaret McConnell (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) discuss the rigorous evaluation of the Nurse-Family Partnership program in...
Evaluation
The Impact of a School-Based Smoking Prevention Program in Indonesia
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of a school-based program that used a non-monetary penalty and regular monitoring to prevent adolescent tobacco use. The program reduced the probability that adolescents smoked, with effects sustained three months after the program ended. Incorporating a school competition component to the program had no further impact on smoking abstinence.
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Lessons from gender-sensitive police reform in India: A Q&A with Sandip Sukhtankar on his new paper in Science
J-PAL affiliate Sandip Sukhtankar shares learnings, policy insights, and scaling plans related to a large-scale evaluation of gender-sensitive police reforms in Madhya Pradesh, India, published in July 2022 in Science.
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From RCT data to survey instruments: how to find what you need on the J-PAL Dataverse
This post is the first in a two-part series to highlight both why and how to use the J-PAL Dataverse. The goal of this first post is to provide a user-friendly guide to access our data, and a starter menu of use cases of data from randomized control trials (RCTs) for students, researchers, teachers...
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Affiliate Spotlight: Sandip Sukhtankar on his path to becoming a economist and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration
Sandip Sukhtankar is an associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia. He serves on the board of J-PAL’s Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI Africa) and co-directs the Payments and Governance Research Program (PGRP) hosted at J-PAL South Asia. Sandip’s...
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Investing in students early: The effects of a STEM pipeline program for underrepresented high school students
The research team behind a rigorous, long-term evaluation of a STEM program for high schoolers discusses their new working paper & key findings, including a significant increase in graduation rates for program participants.
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Reflecting on research during times of uncertainty: A recap from Puerto Rico’s EDUGESPRO graduation
J-PAL North America staff and researchers recently attended a graduation ceremony for school principals who participated in EDUGESPRO, a professional development program born out of a research partnership with the Puerto Rico Department of Education.
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Evidence for digital and bundled services: Framing a research agenda for the Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative
As the reach of digital agricultural services has grown rapidly within the last few years, building an evidence base on how these services should be designed, implemented, and scaled to best align with the priorities of small-scale producers is an important and timely issue—and one that J-PAL's...
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Gujarat, India plans cap-and-trade market for carbon emissions
The market will be the first of its kind among emerging economies, outside of China. Leading researchers from the University of Chicago, Yale, and J-PAL will help design the program, allowing Gujarat to tap global expertise.
Event
J-PAL LAC/UC Chile: Diplomado en Evaluación de Impacto de Programas y Políticas Públicas
Este Diplomado tiene por objetivo dotar de los conocimientos necesarios para diseñar, implementar y ser contraparte de evaluaciones de impacto de programas sociales y políticas públicas. Al finalizar el diplomado, los y las estudiantes serán capaces de utilizar una metodología rigurosa cuya...
Policy insight
Improving health worker performance through pay-for-performance programs
Pay-for-performance incentive programs for health care workers reward providers based on measurable performance indicators. Providing performance-based pay in addition to base pay can help to improve health provider performance on well-chosen targeted indicators relative to providing only base pay.
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Randomized controlled trial finds women’s help desks in local police stations in India increased registration of cases of gender-based violence; scale-up in progress
A randomized control trial by J-PAL affiliate Sandip Sukhtankar and co-authors Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner and Akshay Mangla found that police help desks that were staffed by women registered more domestic incidence reports than those without. The findings are significant given the high rates of gender...
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J-PAL updates
July 2022 Newsletter
In the July newsletter, we discuss how to use J-PAL's Dataverse, the lessons that can be learned from a math achievement program in Puerto Rico, and feature an affiliate spotlight of Sandip Sukhtankar.
Policy insight
Improving tax compliance through reminder messages for taxpayers
Sending tax reminder messages to taxpayers is a cost-effective strategy to increase short-term tax compliance. Governments looking to improve tax compliance should invest in sending simple deterrence-framed messages to taxpayers.