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Overcoming administrative burdens: Strategies to increase access to health insurance in the United States
A new J-PAL policy insight highlights evidence from randomized evaluations on the impact of informational “nudges”—strategies designed to inform individuals about various aspects of health insurance and influence behavior without changing legal or economic systems—on health insurance take-up. In...
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Setting up international research collaborations for success
International research collaborations—those composed of principal investigator (PI) teams based in different countries—are increasingly common and have the potential to strengthen the capacity of research teams and the quality of research projects. As with any research collaboration, successful...
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Ten years of rigorous research and policy impact in South Asia
Growing from just a few research assistants in Delhi and a lean support team in Chennai in 2007 to more than 175 staff across nine field offices today, the J-PAL South Asia team is filling critical evidence gaps and building the capacity of governments and civil society organizations to create...
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Erica Field
Erica Field is a Professor of Economics and Global Health at Duke University. Her current research examines the link between health investments and economic mobility.
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Oeindrila Dube
Oeindrila Dube is the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. She studies poverty and conflict in the developing world.
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Anya Samek
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Resources for researchers new to randomized evaluations
This resource is a brief introduction to conducting field research that distills many years of implementation experience. It is geared towards new PIs (Principal Investigators), such as graduate students or post docs, but may be useful for more seasoned researchers and research staff as well. While...
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Paul Glewwe
Paul Glewwe is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. His interests are economics of education, poverty and inequality in developing countries, and applied econometrics.
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Radhika Bhula
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Hapsari Kusumaningdyah
Hapsari Kusumaningdyah is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where she currently works at the early childhood parenting program and financial inclusion program.
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Sreejita Basu
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Alumni Voices: A new era of humanitarian action
In this inaugural post in the Alumni Voices series, Bhavya Srinivasan (former Senior Finance and Operations Manager, J-PAL South Asia ’14) discusses her work at Start Network to build a stronger humanitarian system for the COVID-19 response.
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Asim Khwaja
Asim Ijaz Khwaja is the Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, political economy, institutions, and contract theory/mechanism design.
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Julu Beth Katticaran
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