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Madeline Brancel
Madeline Brancel is a Policy Manager at J-PAL, where she manages the Education sector and works with governments, NGOs, and academics to build research partnerships and promote evidence-informed policymaking.
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Ignacio Lepe
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Gaby Bustamante
Gaby Bustamante is a Senior Policy and Communications Associate at J-PAL LAC where she works to effectively communicate policy projects as well as important achievements and milestones of the office.
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José Domingo Navarro
José Domingo is Finance and Operations Manager at J-PAL LAC Office where he works on administrating and managing the finances and operations of J- PAL LAC projects, providing budget and spending information to the different areas/projects that make up the organization.
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Katherine Baicker
Katherine Baicker is Dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
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Amy Finkelstein
Amy Finkelstein is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the Co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America, a research center at MIT designed to encourage and facilitate randomized evaluations of important domestic policy issues.
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Margaret McConnell
Margaret McConnell is Associate Professor of Global Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her current research combines behavioral economics with field and laboratory experiments to design and evaluate policies to change health and financial behaviors. She is currently working on...
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David Atkin
David Atkin is the Barton L. Weller (1940) Professor of Economics at MIT and a Co-Chair of J-PAL's Firms sector.
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Anupama Dathan
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Katrina Jessoe
Katrina Jessoe is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis. Her current research focuses on environmental, energy, and resource economics and regulation.
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Robert Metcalfe
Robert Metcalfe is a Professor at Columbia University. Rob’s research lies within applied microeconomics, with a focus on energy and environmental markets, transportation, firm and labor productivity, and digital platforms. He uses field experimental methods to understand human behavior in regulated...
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Adam Osman
Adam Osman is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His work utilizes randomized experiments, machine learning, and economic theory to improve our understanding of which policies work best in improving the lives of the poor. His work covers several...
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Ariel Zucker
Ariel Zucker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include health and environmental conditions in low- and middle-income countries. She is also interested in studying behavioral biases in personal decision-making.
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A Safer Monitoring Tool to Help Workers Report Harassment in Bangladesh
Researchers evaluated how different ways of asking questions in surveys affect workers’ likelihood of reporting harassment at a firm in Bangladesh. A survey technique that gave people plausible deniability led to workers reporting more abuses, allowing the firm to access more accurate data on the extent of harassment at its workplace.