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Wes Yin
Wes Yin is on leave as a J-PAL affiliate. He is currently serving as Chief Economist at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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Matthias Sutter
Matthias Sutter is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and a Part-Time Professor of Experimental Economics at the Universities of Cologne and Innsbruck. Previously he worked at the European University Institute in Florence and at the University of Innsbruck. His...
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Affiliate Spotlight: Danila Serra on women in science and leadership
In celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, 2025, J-PAL Africa hosted an Ask Me Anything session with J-PAL affiliated professor Danila Serra on X, formerly Twitter. Below, we share highlights from this engaging conversation about her research on gender...
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Re-affirming the value of rigorous, policy-relevant research
Rigorous research plays an essential role in identifying which policies are achieving their intended goals. As leaders of a non-partisan research center, J-PAL North America believes in the power of data and evaluation to understand whether policies are working—and to course correct when they are...
Policy insight
Advancing women’s representation and opportunities in STEM fields through exposure to role models
In high-income countries, exposure to women role models often positively impacts women students’ participation and educational performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, by improving students’ perceptions and aspirations of having STEM careers.
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Impact of Loans and Grants on Microenterprise Growth in Egypt
In partnership with three microfinance institutions (MFIs), researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of providing loans, cash grants, or in-kind grants on microentrepreneurs’ business decisions, outcomes, and overall welfare. All three types of capital assistance led to increases in business and economic outcomes, especially for women. Impacts were concentrated among the best-performing recipients of each type of assistance, and researchers found that observable characteristics were the same among those top-performers across all three groups. This suggests that personal characteristics are more important than the type of assistance in predicting the effectiveness of capital assistance.
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Craig McIntosh
Craig McIntosh is a Professor of Economics in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. He is a development economist whose work focuses on the evaluation of programs intended to contribute to the financial livelihoods of poor households. He has worked on...
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Postdoc Spotlight: Alipio Ferreira, J-PAL '23, on his research journey at J-PAL LAC
In our new postdoc alumni spotlight series, we spoke with Alipio Ferreira, J-PAL '23, about his experience as a postdoctoral researcher at J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Pedro Carneiro
Pedro Carneiro is a Professor of Economics at the University College London. He is also a Research Economist at the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice and a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His research interests include labor economics and education in developed and...
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Melanie Morten
Melanie Morten is an Associate Professor at Stanford University. She is a development economist who focuses on the migration of low-income individuals. Her research explores the micro- and macroeconomic implications and determinants of migration in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.
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Adnan Khan
Adnan Khan is on leave as a J-PAL affiliate. He is currently serving as the Chief Economist of FCDO.
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Martina Björkman Nyqvist
Martina is the Carl Bennet and Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Professor in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Executive Director of Misum (Mistra Center of Sustainability Center).
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André Mancha
André Mancha is the Manager for the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative Brazil (JOI Brazil) at J-PAL LAC where he coordinates the funding of research projects, and partnerships with the public and private sectors to promote impact evaluation and disseminate evidence from the J-PAL network on labor...
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Paula Pedro
Paula Pedro is the Executive Director of the Latin America and the Caribbean office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. Paula’s experience in randomized control trials cuts across multiple sectors including social protection, energy efficiency, and early childhood...
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Ariana Britto
Ariana Britto is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). She is responsible for managing partnerships with Brazil's governments and identifying and promoting synergies with other J-PAL projects in the country.