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Andrés Palacios Gálvez
Andrés Palacios Gálvez joined J-PAL as an intern in the Policy and Training groups at J-PAL’s regional office in the Latin America and Caribbean.
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Koichiro Ito
Koichiro Ito is an Associate Professor with the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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J-PAL updates
April 2021 Newsletter
J-PAL and MIT Economics look into potential barriers to higher education in the MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy as they welcome the second cohort of DEDP master's students to campus. Read about this, ways to address Covid-19 learning gaps, using evidence to promote...
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Aishwarya Singh
Aishwarya Singh is a Research Associate for Mushfiq Mobarak at J-PAL South Asia.
Research resource
Conducting cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)
This resource is intended for researchers who are interested in collecting cost data and conducting comparative cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) for their evaluation. It provides an overview of CEA, outlines the basic calculations and key assumptions, and provides two comparative CEA examples from...
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Frank Hoekman
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Anshuman Shukla
Anshuman Shukla is a Senior Project Manager for J-PAL South Asia at IFMR in India. He supports the newly launched initiative on Creating Learning Opportunities for Public Officials (CLOP) in India.
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Beenu Rawat
Beenu Rawat is a Finance Manager at J-PAL South Asia, where she handles the financial and grant management of the office
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Jack Cavanagh
Jack Cavanagh is a Senior Research, Education, and Training Associate at J-PAL Global, where he works on research methods and transparency, including projects on research resources, data publication, and an RCT metadata catalogue.
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Camila Pastén
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Antoinette Schoar
Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD is in economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cologne.
Evaluation
Offering Cash and In-Kind Transfers to Grow and Sustain Microenterprises in Sri Lanka
Researchers provided small one-time grants to microenterprises in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the additional capital on business profits two and five years later. They found that cash and in-kind grants increased business profits for male owners in the short and long term, but did not lead to an increase in business profits for female business owners.
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Earth Day 2021: Evaluating the state of evidence in climate action and poverty alleviation
Earth Day presents an opportunity for citizens, policymakers, and the private sector alike to take stock of the state of our planet and our progress in fighting climate change. This Earth Day, we must also acknowledge climate change's disproportionate impact on people experiencing poverty. To...
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Adrienne Larson
Adrienne Larson joined J-PAL Global as a Policy Intern in February 2016, where she helps to communicate J-PAL's research findings to policymakers.