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Taking action on state and local policy priorities
This past fall, the J-PAL North America State and Local Innovation Initiative hosted a series of webinars to discuss how state and local governments can use lessons from randomized evaluations to address these timely policy challenges. The initiative seeks to take action on the conversations from...
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Ingrid Lustig
Ingrid Lustig is a Senior Development Associate at J-PAL Global, where she supports donor stewardship and engagement.
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Paloma Artigas San Carlos
Paloma del Pilar Artigas San Carlos is a Project Associate at J-PAL LAC, where she works on the project "School-Parent Communication with SMS" which aims assess whether the provision of school information to parents by SMS would improve the scholarly performance of children.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at J-PAL North America and Beyond
J-PAL North America is committed to testing strategies and developing resources to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion among their staff, network of researchers and partners, and underrepresented scholars in the economics field.
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Erica Field
Erica Field is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Economics at Duke University specializing in the fields of Development Economics, Health Economics, and Economic Demography.
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Strengthening Indonesia’s branchless banking agent network: Challenges and lessons from evidence
Read this recap of J-PAL SEA's Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative's webinar on Banking the unbanked: The effects of agents’ financial incentives and transparency in increasing the take-up and usage of financial products.
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Bernardita Muñoz Zech
Bernardita Muñoz is a Research Manager at J-PAL LAC where she works on coordinating the activities of the impact evaluation of “Papás al Día. School-Parents Communication with SMS.” Prior to joining J-PAL LAC in 2014, she worked at the Economics Department of Universidad de Chile.
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Laura Feeney
Laura Feeney is the Executive Director of J-PAL North America. Laura leads the office’s efforts to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by rigorous evidence in the region. She sets the organization's strategic vision and advises on the office's research, policy outreach, capacity building...
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Impact of Community Information in Identifying High Ability Microentrepreneurs
Identifying high-potential microentrepreneurs in low-income countries remains a challenge due to lack of verifiable information. Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the value of community knowledge in identifying high-potential microentrepreneurs.
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Second cohort to graduate from the Data, Economics, and Development Policy master’s program joins a growing community of alumni
The second cohort in the Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) master’s program at MIT completed their degrees with a hybrid in-person and remote model in 2021. Thirteen students graduated in September after completing a summer capstone internship that applied their MIT coursework to real...
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Riyah Singh
Riyah is a Senior Research Associate for Ben Roth and Natalia Rigol at J-PAL South Asia.
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Generating Rigorous Evidence on the Effectiveness of Humanitarian Programming
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is developing a long-term research effort to generate actionable cross-cutting insights to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian operations.
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Cristian (Kiki) Pop-Eleches
Cristian (Kiki) Pop-Eleches is a Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is a development economist, with a particular interest in education, health, and demography.