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Emanuele Colonnelli
Emanuele Colonnelli is an associate professor of finance and MV Advisors Faculty Fellow at the Booth School of Business at The University of Chicago.
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The Effect of Matching on Worker Skills versus Preferences on Firm-Worker Matches in South Africa
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to improve the quality of job matches in South Africa. They matched applicants to entry-level vacancies using different types of information: workers’ preferences for job types; communication and socio-emotional skills; or grades and work experience.
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Resources for measuring precise and accurate outcomes in randomized evaluations
The repository is a collection of resources that introduce the measurement issues, tools, and innovations in a specific topic or question type. It is a companion piece to our Introduction to measurement and indicators and Survey design pages, compiling resources that discuss and provide guidance on...
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J-PAL updates
September 2022 Newsletter
The September 2022 J-PAL Newsletter celebrated the five-year anniversary of the Data, Economics, and Development Policy MicroMasters program, and featured a blog on mitigating learning loss and upcoming events.
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Achieving Gender Equity in Education by 2030: Lessons from the Evidence
In this virtual panel event, we will gather experts and practitioners who use evidence to design girl-focused programmes to share their lessons on what we know, what we still need to learn, and how we can move forward on gender equity.
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Laura Boudreau
Laura Boudreau is an assistant professor in the Economics Division at Columbia Business School.
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Can digital IDs transform service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa? Reflections from Tavneet Suri
Digital IDs have the potential to transform the delivery of social protection programs and other government services in sub-Saharan Africa through better targeting and reduced leakages. In this podcast, Tavneet Suri, professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management and co-chair of J...
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The Effect of Bureaucrat Performance Scorecards on Service Delivery and Bribes in Bangladesh
Researchers evaluated the impact of performance scorecards on the speed of delivery and the payment of bribes. Results show that the intervention increased on-time service delivery, but did not decrease bribe payments on average; bribes among high-performers increased.
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Aliya Chikte
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Deepa Janakiraman
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Kimberly Massa
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Olivia Bryan
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Swetha Teli
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Sarah Baird
Sarah Baird is a professor of global health and economics and Vice Chair in the Department of Global Health in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Her research focuses on the microeconomics of health and education in low- and middle-income countries with an...