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How can the Nobel-winning “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” contribute to research on job creation?
Job creation is an all-time favorite talking point for politicians around the world as economies adapt to new trade patterns and technological innovation causes tectonic shifts in older industries. But how do we actually create more jobs?
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School-based Social and Emotional Learning on Student Behavior and Learning Outcomes in Chile
Researchers evaluated the impact of Chile’s national Skills For Life (SFL) program for disruptive students on their behavior and academic outcomes. Researchers found that the SFL program did not impact eligible students’ learning outcomes.
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Costs of Failure to Appear for Arraignment
Researchers will conduct a randomized evaluation to test the impact of different types of notifications on rates of failure to appear in traffic and criminal misdemeanor courts.
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Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Project Niger: Safe Spaces and Future Husband Clubs
Researchers are partnering with the Government of Niger to evaluate the impact of empowerment clubs providing adolescents girls with life skills trainings; gender norms clubs designed to change gender-related norms among young men; or both clubs implemented in the same villages on gender norms and women’s empowerment outcomes.
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The Impact of a Graduation Program on Livelihoods in Refugee and Host Communities in Uganda
In Uganda, researchers working with USAID are conducting a randomized evaluation to better understand the effectiveness of several variants of a graduation program focused on improving nutrition and self-reliance among populations in and around a refugee settlement.
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Joy Kiiru
Joy Kiiru is a part-time Research and Policy Advisor for the Gender and Economic Agency (GEA) Initiative at J-PAL.
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Anamika Misra
As a Senior Policy Associate, Anamika focuses on two specific areas: supporting the institutional partnership with the Government of Tamil Nadu, and supporting scale-up pathways for the Graduation Approach for ultra-poor families with different state governments in India.
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Providing Free Internet Connectivity to Improve Financial and Economic Outcomes in Kenya
Researchers are partnering with a leading mobile network operator to investigate how the internet affects financial and economic outcomes, particularly for women.
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Guillermo Cruces
Guillermo Cruces is a professor of economics at the University of Nottingham and the deputy director of the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
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The Impact of a Women-Specific Credit Scoring Model on Women’s Access to Credit in the Dominican Republic
Researchers are partnering with a bank and a mobile money operator in the Dominican Republic to evaluate the impact of credit scoring models designed specifically for women on access to credit.