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How do we achieve affordable, quality health care? Follow the evidence.
In this guest post, Darshak Shavani writes about how a commitment to evidence, and a connection by J-PAL North America, led to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center launching the first ever randomized evaluation of a major federal health insurance program in the...
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Alumni Voices from Government: Axelle Charpentier '14, French Ministry of Education
Formerly a research manager at J-PAL Europe, Axelle Charpentier '14 now leads education policy and practice research at the French Ministry of Education. She describes her journey from J-PAL to government in this post in the Alumni Voices from Government series.
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Mariajose Silva-Vargas
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August 2020 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's August newsletter highlights a new blog post on how research can help combat the COVID-19 education crisis, our education technology evidence review, and an interview with affiliated researcher Sarah Cohodes.
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Expanding Access and Increasing Student Learning in Post-Primary Education in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence
In this review, J-PAL affiliates Abhijit Banerjee and Paul Glewwe along with Shawn Powers and Melanie Wasserman synthesize the evidence to date on post-primary education and identify policies that should be given the highest priority for future research.
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Contemporaneous and Post-Program Impacts of a Public Works Program: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
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Suresh de Mel
Suresh de Mel is a professor in economics at the University of Peradeniya. His research focuses on small-scale enterprises in Sri Lanka.
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Renard Sexton
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Aarathi Ajay Thomas
Aarathi Thomas is the HR Manager at J-PAL South Asia where she is primarily responsible for planning, designing and strengthening key HR activities and processes with a focus on staff development.
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Pastoralism in the COVID-19 era
Pastoralism is a livestock production system that has been carried out for millennia in some of the world’s harshest environments, including the vast arid of East Africa. This post, written by Philemon Chelanga, Indira Tirumala, and CEGA affiliated professor Elizabeth Lyons, explains how the...
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Understanding the role and importance of spillover effects
A new J-PAL evidence wrap-up highlights three randomized evaluations that consider the spillover effects of three health care interventions. In this post, we discuss what spillover effects are, a summary of the highlighted studies highlighted, and the benefits to policymakers in considering...
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Promoting upward mobility in partnership with state and local governments: A blueprint for future evaluations
This blog post is the final piece in a series on how state and local governments in the United States can promote upward mobility in their communities. It is part of J-PAL North America’s work to develop a learning agenda that summarizes the core research priorities from state and local governments...
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How can we best conserve the Amazon? Open policy questions for randomized evaluations
The Amazon Forest–covering over nine countries in Latin America–has an essential role in the environment and climate. Which policies are the most effective in protecting it and reducing its deforestation? The blog post outlines some open policy questions for randomized evaluations to conserve the...
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Alumni Voices from Government: Jasmine Shah ‘16, Dialogue and Development Commission, Delhi Government
Formerly the deputy director of J-PAL South Asia, Jasmine Shah ‘16 now leads public policy design and implementation at the Dialogue and Development Commission within the Delhi government. He describes the transition from J-PAL to government in this post in our Alumni Voices from Government series.
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