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Expanding access to higher education for refugees
Starting in the summer of 2018, ReACT Hub, an MIT initiative that designs and deploys new learning opportunities for displaced populations, will sponsor a cohort of refugees to join the MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy, providing selected learners with access to scholarships...
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Announcing J-PAL’s Policy Insights
What have we learned from randomized evaluations that policymakers, practitioners, and funders can use to improve social programs? J-PAL’s library of short briefs called Policy Insights highlight lessons emerging across multiple studies and the mechanisms that help explain the results.
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Adapting a new educational approach to francophone West Africa
Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an educational approach to help primary school students who have fallen behind to catch up by targeting instruction to their current learning level. J-PAL Europe and partner organizations are currently developing a pilot of this approach in Côte d’Ivoire.
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Why enroll in the MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy?
Norman Simon Rodriguez, a MicroMasters learner in Colombia, shares his experience taking the online courses and earning his full credential. Learn more about the skills you can learn through the five-course program.
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How do we know if education technology even works?
J-PAL affiliates Phil Oreopoulos and Tom Kane, along with Britt Neuhaus of the Overdeck Family Foundation, argue that education leaders must commit to rigorous evaluation of edtech products before scaling up.
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Cultivating partnerships between health care practitioners and researchers
This year’s Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) workshop brought together researchers and health care practitioners to strengthen their working knowledge of randomized evaluations and lay a foundation for developing strong research partnerships.
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Affiliate spotlight: Adam Osman on expanding opportunities for evaluation in the MENA region
Adam Osman is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-Scientific Director of J-PAL’s Middle East and North Africa initiative. He has been a J-PAL affiliate since 2016.
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Ana Mendoza
Ana Carolina Mendoza joined J-PAL LAC in 2013 and she works on the promotion of evidence-based policy. Prior to joining J-PAL LAC, she worked at the A.C. Fundación Venezuela sin Límites, in Venezuela. Ana holds a Master in Public Policy from the University of Chile.