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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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Graduation approach: Updated insights and best practices at scale
Recently, J-PAL updated its Policy Insight on the Graduation approach, in addition to a guide outlining key lessons from the large-scale adaptation of the graduation program, Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY) by the State Government of Bihar in India.
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Vesall Nourani
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Using insurance and climate-smart technologies to help farmers cope with weather-based risk
An urgent policy priority, both to increase farmers’ own productivity and profits and to contribute to stabilizing food security throughout these regions, is to provide accessible forms of risk protection. J-PAL’s updated Policy Insight reviews 23 randomized evaluations on common interventions...
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Encouraging rigorous, actionable research for opioid epidemic interventions in the United States
In this post, J-PAL North America reviews the ongoing studies supported by J-PAL North America on strategies to address the opioid epidemic and calls for further research in this pressing area.
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Recapping a conversation between leaders in evidence-based policy making from J-PAL North America’s ten year convening
In this post, we highlight a conversation between Esther Duflo and Laura Arnold from J-PAL North America's ten year convening on building a culture of evidence-based policymaking.
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Three lessons from J-PAL North America’s ten year convening
Across a breadth of topics covered at J-PAL North America's ten year convening, speakers touched on common themes about how to generate evidence and inform policies effectively and equitably.
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Dentro do Programa MITx MicroMasters® em Dados, Economia, e Design de Políticas (DEDP) e das Bolsas de Estudo da Fundação Lemann
O programa MicroMasters® em Dados, Economia e Design de Políticas (DEDP) oferece a estudantes habilidades práticas e conhecimento teórico para enfrentar alguns dos desafios mais urgentes em todo o mundo.
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J-PAL updates
December 2023 J-PAL North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's December newsletter features reflections on our ten year anniversary, a new blog post from our researching racial equity series, and ongoing studies conducted by J-PAL’s affiliated researchers on interventions to address the opioid epidemic.
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J-PAL updates
J-PAL LAC 2023 Year Recap Newsletter
This special newsletter from J-PAL LAC celebrates J-PAL's 20th anniversary by highlighting the research center's most notable achievements in the region in the past year.
Evaluation
Online Customer Discrimination against Female Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Researchers evaluated the impact of gender-based discrimination on female teleworkers’ productivity in online sales interactions with customers in Africa. When a customer chat representative had a female-sounding name, it led to significantly fewer purchases, and slower and more reserved reactions from customers.
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Growing evidence-informed climate policy: Five scaling stories from the King Climate Action Initiative
J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI) supports pilot studies, randomized evaluations, and scaling projects at the nexus of climate change and poverty alleviation. Three years ago, the initiative concluded its first funding competition. Since then, K-CAI has generated evidence that has...
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Increasing Women’s Local Political Participation Through Top-Down and Bottom-Up Training in Indonesia
A researcher evaluated the impact of empowerment training for female citizens and training for male council chairs on women's participation in neighborhood associations, known as rukun tetangga (RT) in Malang, East Java, Indonesia.