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James Turitto
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J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative – Year 1 Participant Conference
State and local government leaders, leading scholars, and social service providers gathered in Cambridge to share their first-hand experiences of overcoming practical and political challenges to evaluating government programs, with a focus on crime and violence prevention, maternal and child health...
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State and Local Innovation Initiative Webinar
The J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative supports US state and local leaders in using randomized evaluations to generate new and widely applicable lessons about which programs work, which work best, and why. On Thursday, December 8th at 1:00pm Eastern, J-PAL North America hosted a webinar to...
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IPA/J-PAL Africa Executive Education Course, 2017
This five-day program on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one’s own evaluation.The course is designed for managers and researchers from NGOs, governments, international development...
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Research and Innovation: Ed-Tech, Personalized Learning & the Digital Divide
While technology has the potential to revolutionize education, it creates the risk of leaving those without access behind and exacerbating the already stark divides in educational opportunity and achievement in the U.S. Experts recently gathered at MIT to discuss how we can use rigorous research to...
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Demonetizing India: what, why, and where now
Join J-PAL director Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) today at 4pm EDT for a live stream discussion of the economics and politics behind India's recent demonetization, partly based on recent field research. The Government of India's decision to no longer accept 500 and 1,000 rupee notes as legal tender is one...
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The China Shock: Economic and Political Consequences of China’s Rise for the United States
China’s rise as an economic power has significantly shifted the patterns of world trade and challenged existing empirical research about how labor markets react to trade shocks. Join us today at 4pm Eastern to learn about the impacts of Chinese growth on US consumers, labor markets, and inequality.
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Experimenting for a Better Future: Drawing Policy Lessons from Randomised Evaluations
Please join Dr Rachel Glennerster (Executive Director, J-PAL) and J-PAL Africa (UCT) at the Wits School of Governance on Monday, 13 March for a session on the potential of randomised evaluations to measure impact and inform policy design where details matter for take-up, effectiveness, cost and more...
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J-PAL Global Executive Education 2017
J-PAL Global and J-PAL North America are coming up with their Annual Executive Education Course taking place at MIT Cambridge. This five-day course provides participants a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and a pragmatic step-by-step guidance on conducting one’s own evaluation
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J-PAL/ CLEAR South Asia Executive Education 2017
Apply by May 12 for J-PAL/ CLEAR South Asia's five-day course on impact evaluation. The course provides pragmatic step-by-step guidance on conducting one’s own evaluation and covers topics including M&E theory and practices, evaluation design and sampling techniques.
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IPA J-PAL Measuring Women’s Empowerment Researcher Gathering
This one-day gathering brought together a small group of researchers and donors to discuss several current debates and challenges in measuring women’s empowerment and to generate a practical set of recommendations on how researchers, practitioners, and donors can improve the ways we measure...