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Policy Insights in Social Protection
J-PAL's Social Protection sector focuses on identifying policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries effective at providing financial assistance to low-income families, insuring against shocks, and breaking poverty traps. The policy insights below summarize general lessons from...
Blog
Affiliate Spotlight: Raquel Bernal on early childhood education and the importance of lifelong learning
Raquel Bernal is Professor of Economics and President of Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. In this Affiliate Spotlight, she shares more about her path to development economics and her research on early childhood education.
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Inés Torres Rojas
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Anushka Bansal
Evaluation
Gender-specific managerial training program and firm productivity in Colombia
Researchers are evaluating the impact of providing a gender-specific managerial training program on career advancement prospects for women and workplace productivity.
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Antara Keswani
Policy insight
Using simple reminders to reduce failures to appear in court
Failing to appear—when people awaiting arraignment fail to appear in court—is criminalized in 46 US states and can result in jail time. Evidence from randomized evaluations suggests that simple reminders through text messages, mail, or phone calls can be effective in reducing the rate at which...
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WFP and MIT's Poverty Action Lab join forces to develop innovative solutions to food security, nutrition, and resilience challenges
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop innovative solutions that help build a more resilient and food secure future for...
Event
DEDP Webinar: Pursue a credential in the MITx MicroMasters® Program
Join us for a 60-minute webinar about the MicroMasters® program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) to learn more about the program and ask questions in a live Q&A session!
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Hend Ramzy
Event
Promoviendo el Desarrollo Infantil Temprano en Guatemala: ¿Cómo participar en el programa PROSA?
Este webinar gratuito explicará en detalle en qué consiste PROSA, el nuevo programa de J-PAL y UVG que busca catalizar el uso y generación de evidencia en torno al Desarrollo Infantil Temprano en Guatemala.
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Margaret Dennis
Blog
20 for 20: Promoting diversity in economics in LAC with current and former J-PAL staff
In this post, we speak with the co-founders of EconThaki, an organization created to improve diversity and inclusion in economics through information, training and mentoring in South America. Econthaki was launched by young Peruvian researchers, including Jostin Kitmang, J-PAL LAC Research Manager...
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Fostering early child development to alleviate poverty in Guatemala
In Guatemala—one of the countries with the world's highest stunting rates and low early childhood education enrollment—several organizations and government institutions increasingly recognize the importance of improving early child development (ECD) and have accumulated relevant key lessons on ECD...
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June 2023 Newsletter
Our June 2023 Newsletter features the first of J-PAL's 20 for 20:Partner Voices blog series, the latest evidence on microcredit, and an alumni of of J-PAL and MIT’s Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) master’s program.