Displaying 6601 - 6615 of 7898
Person
Benjamin Roth
Benjamin Roth is the Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Update
J-PAL updates
August 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL and King Philanthropies launch $25 million King Climate Action Initiative and more in J-PAL's August newsletter.
Event
Global Evidence for Egypt Spotlight Webinar on Social Assistance
Please join us for the upcoming Global Evidence for Egypt spotlight webinar, “What does global evidence tell us about social assistance response to large external shocks in Egypt?" The webinar will focus on what global evidence tells us about social assistance that responds to covariate shocks.
Event
Towards Inclusive Digital Finance in Indonesia
Join J-PAL Southeast Asia for a webinar to launch the Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative (IFII). To kick off this learning collaborative, key findings from the initiative's whitepaper will be shared to inform digital financial services (DFS) stakeholders and policy decisions.
Blog
How to use data for everyday decisions in a pandemic
To help us make safe, intelligent decisions for how to conduct our everyday lives during the pandemic, we need new data-driven tools to assess risk based on our unique personal profiles and local conditions.
Person
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.
Evaluation
Providing Post-Training Assistance to Young Jobseekers to Improve Employment Outcomes in India
Researchers are evaluating the impact of providing additional information and resources to those who have completed skills training programs on employment outcomes.
Person
Lori Beaman
Lori Beaman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. Lori's research interests lie in development and labor economics with a focus on the role of social networks in the labor market and in agriculture, and women's economic and social mobility.
Person
Orazio Attanasio
Orazio Attanasio is the Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University, a Research Fellow and one of the Directors of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, and co-director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo@IFS) at the Institute for Fiscal...
Blog
Promoting girls’ participation in schools: insights from academic research
What actions can countries take to implement or reinforce efforts to increase school participation for girls? Pascaline Dupas (Stanford; Co-Chair, J-PAL’s Health sector) presented evidence from randomized evaluations on interventions that have increased school participation in a recent webinar.
Event
Leading evidence-based labor policies in Morocco
This first training event, led by the Morocco Employment Lab (MEL), gathered senior officials from key labor market institutions.
Blog
#DayoftheGirlChild: Preventing the surge in teenage pregnancies due to COVID-19
In this blog, we highlight key interventions that policymakers and practitioners may wish to consider to urgently reduce child marriages and teenage pregnancies in light of the pandemic.
Person
Aditya Balasubramanian
Aditya works on the Delhi Voters Project, which seeks to understand how information provision affects voting preferences in Delhi slums and middle-class areas.
Update
J-PAL updates
July 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL announces the launch of J-PAL Middle East and North Africa, its newest regional research center, and reaches a major milestone: over 1,000 evaluations across 84 countries.