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Nicole Maestas
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Shivalika Gupta
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Alex Chen
Alex Chen is a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where he works on the Political Economy and Governance sector.
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Four key lessons for building scale-up partnerships
Scaling up programs that have strong evidence of effectiveness is a vital but often complicated step along the evidence-to-policy journey, and J-PAL has learned a lot about collaborating with policymakers to translate research into large-scale action. In this blog post, Iqbal Dhaliwal (Global...
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Chris Blattman
Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago, in the Harris School of Public Policy, as well as a research associate at NBER. He studies why some people and societies are poor, violent and unequal, and what (if anything) aid or...
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Simon Briole
Simon Briole is a Postdoctoral fellow for J-PAL Europe. In September 2017, Simon joined the J-PAL Europe office as a Research Associate and soon became Research Manager.
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Laura Costica, J-PAL '14, on applying impact evaluations in humanitarian settings
The Alumni Spotlight series highlights J-PAL alumni who are making an impact across industries and around the world. Formerly a research manager at J-PAL Africa, Laura Costica ‘14 now manages monitoring, learning, and evaluation at the IKEA Foundation. She describes her journey from J-PAL to the...
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Seema Jayachandran
Seema Jayachandran is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Princeton University. Her work focuses primarily on health in developing countries, and she also has research interests in education, labor markets, the environment, and political economy.
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Jessica Williams
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Resources for measuring precise and accurate outcomes in randomized evaluations
The repository is a collection of resources that introduce the measurement issues, tools, and innovations in a specific topic or question type. It is a companion piece to our Introduction to measurement and indicators and Survey design pages, compiling resources that discuss and provide guidance on...
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Information and College Access in Canada
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Rachel Glennerster
Rachel Glennerster is an associate professor of economics in the Division of Social Science at the University of Chicago.
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Quentin Daviot
Quentin Daviot is a Research Manager at J-PAL Europe where he works on a randomized evaluation studying pre-kindergarten language development.
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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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The Impact of Employment on High-Risk Men in Liberia
In Liberia, researchers tested the effect of an intensive agricultural training program that also provided agricultural supplies and psychosocial counseling on employment activities, income, and socio-political integration. Fourteen months after the program, participants spent more time working in agriculture and less on illicit activities, and their income rose as a result.