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Evaluation
The Impact of Diagnostic Feedback for Teachers on Student Learning in India
Researchers evaluated whether providing low-stakes diagnostic tests and feedback to teachers led to improved student learning outcomes in India. They found that teachers in intervention schools exerted more effort when observed in the classroom but students in these schools performed no better on independently-administered tests than students in schools that did not receive the program.
Evaluation
Leveraging Teacher Incentives to Improve Student Performance and Reduce Dropout in Uganda
Researchers evaluated whether an alternative teacher incentive scheme, providing rewards based on the performance of all students, could help reduce dropout and improve student performance. Implementing the incentive scheme improved teacher effort. In schools with math books, the incentive scheme also improved student attendance, attainment, and achievement.
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Alessia Mortara
Alessia Mortara is Policy Manager at J-PAL Africa. She manages J-PAL Africa’s policy team in building partnerships with governments, donors, and civil society organizations to promote the use of evidence in decision-making as well as supporting the scale-up of successful interventions.
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Katherine Baicker
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Yuen Ho
Yuen Ho is a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where she supports the Political Economy and Governance sector, including the Governance Initiative, and serves as regional liaison to the Africa office.
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Jing Cai
Jing Cai is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012.
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Rebecca Toole
Becca Toole joined J-PAL’s Policy Group in 2015 as a Policy Associate. She works to communicate findings of J-PAL evaluations to policymakers and strengthen policy outreach.
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Kyle Murphy
Kyle Murphy is a Initiatives Lead at J-PAL where he heads J-PAL's funding initiatives.
Evaluation
The Impact of Agro-dealer Training on Input Adoption and Productivity Among Smallholder Farmers in Niger
In Niger, researchers evaluated the impact of a training program for input distributors (agro-dealers) on smallholder access to and use of agricultural inputs. Researchers found that trainings for agro-dealers combined with a demonstration plot increased the share of farmers adopting improved seeds, but did not increase the quantity used to have an impact on agricultural output.
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Meagan Neal
Meagan Neal is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where she writes policy publications, helps forge new research partnerships, and shares lessons from J-PAL evaluations with policymakers.
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Karthik Muralidharan
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Supporting Governments During Covid-19
J-PAL LAC is leveraging its long-standing partnerships with governments in the region to provide policy advisory support and to share evidence to fight the short- and long-term challenges posed by the pandemic.
Event
J-PAL Africa Evaluating Social Programs Course, 2021
Held live over Zoom, this five-day training will equip participants with the resources and knowledge to engage with impact evaluations of social programs in Africa.
Project
Scaling up a Program to Boost Immunization Demand in Haryana: A Pilot Study
Researchers conducted surveys with registered caregivers of children in Haryana, India to understand the quality and reliability of data recorded by frontline health workers using the government’s m-health application, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife Online (ANMOL) and the extent of Covid-19-induced...