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Global Evidence on Digital Financial Services and Savings Groups: Impact on Women’s Empowerment Seminar
Egypt’s Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, the National Council for Women, UN Women Egypt, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Middle East and North Africa (J-PAL MENA) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) organized a seminar on 9 June 2022 with the participation of the...
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June 2022 Newsletter
In the June newsletter, we highlight our new blog series on social programs in Africa, the one-year anniversary of JOI Brazil, and some exciting upcoming events in July.
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Mary Ann Bates, J-PAL ‘21, on shaping the use of data and evidence in federal and state government
This installment of our Alumni Spotlight series features Mary Ann Bates, former executive director of J-PAL North America, and currently the executive director of the State of California’s Cradle-to-Career System.
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Harpreet Singh
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Harshita Sharma
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Implementation challenges of an impact assessment: The ATEMA project in Puerto Rico
Olgamary Rivera and Alina Amador discuss the implementation of the Technology Application in Mathematics Teaching (Aplicación de la Tecnología en la Enseñanza de las Matemáticas, or ATEMA) program in Puerto Rico.
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Visualizing Future Benefits to Increase Preventive Health Investment, Savings, and Labor Supply in Kenya
Researchers evaluated the impact of light-touch psychological interventions on health and economic outcomes, with a particular focus on the chlorination of drinking water. After twelve weeks, visualizing the future increased objectively measured chlorination; it also reduced diarrhea episodes among children and increased savings. After almost three years, it increased chlorination, savings, and labor supply, while effects of the planning intervention were weaker.