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USAID Development Innovation Ventures Supports Zambia Teaching at the Right Level Programme
USAID’s Development for Innovation Ventures (DIV) has announced Zambia’s Teaching at the Right Level (TARL) Programme as one of its 18 new investments. Among other partners, J-PAL, Pratham, Innovations for Poverty Action, and and UNICEF/Zambia will support the work hand in hand with the Zambian...
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How Boston’s Summer Employment Program Affects Youth Criminal Justice Outcomes
Researchers evaluated whether Boston’s SYEP had an effect on the criminal justice outcomes of participants and sought to gauge the potential mechanisms driving these effects. The program reduced participants’ violent and property crime-related arraignments.
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Gerard van den Berg
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Achill Rudolph
Achill joined J-PAL in August 2011 and is currently based in Patna, Bihar. He is working on a project to evaluate the health impact of supplying iron-fortified salt to markets in rural Bihar.
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Improving female labor force participation in MENA
Female labor force participation in MENA is the lowest globally. Evidence from recent randomized evaluations conducted in MENA help shed light on some reasons why participation rates are so low and what types of policies could help increase them.
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Reducing labour market information frictions with skill certificates: Evidence from South Africa
Limited information during a firm's hiring decision or a workseeker's search can lead to "information frictions" that may contribute to the high global youth unemployment rate. In a recently published paper, J-PAL affiliated researchers showed how assessing youth workseeker skills in South Africa...
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The leaky bucket: Can digitization of social welfare programs reduce leakages?
Corruption and ineffective program implementation often result in leakages, which are particularly concerning when it comes to social welfare programs, including cash transfers. But with rapid technological innovation and increasing connectivity, does digitization have the potential to help reduce...
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The Graduation Approach during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Building Resilience among Ultra-poor Households in Bihar
Researchers assessed the economic shock, health knowledge, and access to social protection schemes among poor women in rural Bihar, a state in central India, in this descriptive study. Telephonic surveys were conducted with beneficiaries of a livelihoods scheme for ultra-poor women launched by the...
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Aging and Health in India: A Longitudinal Study and an Experimental Platform
Researchers conducted surveys to study the effect of the Covid-19 lockdown on the long-term well-being of elderly individuals in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Surveys aimed to generate immediate and actionable insights for the government to shed light on how social protection programs like...
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Measuring social attitudes and norms in impact evaluations: Examples from India
Social norms also often persist despite economic growth, and can negatively impact development outcomes. Evaluating the impact of interventions targeting social norms can be useful to understand how they might be changed.
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High Frequency Monitoring of the Covid-19 Response in Delhi
Researchers conducted high-frequency surveys with visitors to government primary health care centers in Delhi to assess how the pandemic has affected food and income security, awareness of and access to government relief schemes, and knowledge of public health directives among households.
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Lobna Kassim
Lobna Kassim is a Senior Policy Manager at J-PAL Middle East and North Africa where she works on translating research into action and promoting a culture of evidence-informed policymaking to help governments, donors, practitioners and NGOs in applying evidence from randomized evaluations to their...
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Pushing the boundaries of governance, crime, and conflict research: Innovations in research, measurement, and design
In 2017, J-PAL and IPA jointly launched the Governance, Crime, and Conflict Initiative to increase our understanding of effective policies to promote peace and good governance, reduce crime, and support individuals and communities recovering from conflict. With three years of research behind us, we...
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Social Contact in Divided Societies: Emerging Insights and Implications for Practice
Please join for the first webinar in a series focused on showcasing emerging results and policy lessons from the first three years of J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action’s Governance, Crime, and Conflict Initiative (GCCI). This first event webinar in the GCCI webinar series will explore if...
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Short- and Long-term Effects of the Lockdown on Young Rural Migrants from Bihar and Jharkhand
Researchers assessed the short- and long-term effects of the lockdown on labor migrants from Bihar and Jharkhand. Initial phone surveys find that 45 percent of migrant who resided outside of their home state in the pre-lockdown period had returned to their home state, 32 percent who had salaried...