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Celebrating a decade of the AEA RCT Registry
The AEA RCT Registry serves as a central repository for information on planned, ongoing, completed, or withdrawn randomized trials in the social sciences. We're celebrating it's tenth anniversary by using the wealth of data (updated every month in the AEA Registry Dataverse) from ten years of...
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Researching racial equity: The value of centering lived experience in the research process
In part four of J-PAL North America’s researching racial equity blog series, we sit down with Anthony Barrows, Managing partner and founder of the Center for Behavioral Design and Social Justice, to understand how to center lived experiences throughout the research process and in impact evaluations...
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Graduation approach: Updated insights and best practices at scale
Recently, J-PAL updated its Policy Insight on the Graduation approach, in addition to a guide outlining key lessons from the large-scale adaptation of the graduation program, Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY) by the State Government of Bihar in India.
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Digital Identification in Africa: Reforms, Evidence, and Opportunities
During this webinar, speakers will discuss relevant policy reforms in sub-Saharan Africa, existing evidence, and opportunities for policy-relevant research on digital identification.
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A year in blogs: Reflecting on 2019 through the eyes of staff, affiliates, and partners
In 2019 we launched new initiatives to spur innovative research, admitted the first-ever cohort of blended Masters’ students, celebrated our founders’ and affiliate’s Nobel Prize win, and much more. It’s almost impossible to capture the breadth and depth of what our staff, affiliates, and partners...
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DigiFI Africa: A pillar of the G7 Partnership for Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa
J-PAL Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI Africa) is honored to be one of the pillars of the G7 Partnership for Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa. Through DigiFI, J-PAL Africa will support gender-specific research to ensure digital innovations promote the...
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DigiFI Africa: A pillar of the G7 Partnership for Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa
J-PAL Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI Africa) is honored to be one of the pillars of the G7 Partnership for Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa. Through DigiFI, J-PAL Africa will support gender-specific research to ensure digital innovations promote the...
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November 2021 Newsletter
In the November 2021 Newsletter, we highlight ideas around how climate finance can support evidence generation, three key lessons on informing policy with evidence in Africa, and evidence for medical debt relief.
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Using rigorous impact evaluation to help people find jobs
The French Public Employment Service has incorporated rigorous evidence from randomized evaluations into its decision-making processes to improve employment outcomes of job seekers throughout the country.
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October 2018 Newsletter
Learn about how J-PAL Latin American & the Caribbean is helping develop an ed-tech agenda, get to know affiliated researcher Craig McIntosh, join us for a lecture with Michael Greenstone on using big data analytics to measure the real-world costs of climate change.
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Leading government systems change from within
At J-PAL, our people are the real drivers of our impact. Many J-PAL alumni go on to occupy positions in governments worldwide, where they advocate for evidence use in decision-making from within. Learn about the civil servants among our current and former staff in our new Alumni Voices from...
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Building an effective COVID-19 response: A guide for future research
How can policy leaders best support their communities in the face of the joblessness, educational setbacks, and trauma inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic? Rigorous evidence will play a critical role in helping us understand which policies and programs will truly work to help communities recover in...
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June 2023 Newsletter
Our June 2023 Newsletter features the first of J-PAL's 20 for 20:Partner Voices blog series, the latest evidence on microcredit, and an alumni of of J-PAL and MIT’s Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) master’s program.