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Prajval Jhunjhunwala
Prajval Jhunjhunwala is a Research Manager at J-PAL South Asia, where he works on the Energy, Environment and Climate Change portfolio.
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Teaching at the Right Level to improve learning
Reorienting instruction has improved learning opportunities for over 60 million students in India and Africa.
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Deworming to increase school attendance
After research found that school-based distribution of deworming pills in areas with high infection rates boosted health and school attendance, the approach has been scaled to reach over 280 million children in 2019.
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Free bednets to fight malaria
Evidence from randomized evaluations played a role in shifting global opinion to support free distribution of key preventive health products.
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Skills training to strengthen police performance
Training in soft skills for police in Rajasthan, India improved public perceptions of their performance.
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Incentivized community grants for aid effectiveness
A performance-incentivized community grant program shown to accelerate improvements in health reached about 4.9 million people from 2010 to 2018 and generated important lessons for future programs to reduce childhood stunting in Indonesia.
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Community chlorine dispensers for better health
Innovative safe drinking water technology has reached 4 million people in Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda.
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Targeted information to improve social assistance
Government scale-up improves access to targeted social programs for 65.67 million people.
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The Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Medicare Bundled Payment Reform
Researchers evaluated the spillover effects of a nationwide Medicare bundled payment reform on privately insured Medicare Advantage (MA) patients who were not targeted by the reform. They found that the bundled payment reform’s spillover effect on non-targeted MA patients was similar to the bundled payment reform’s direct effect on targeted Traditional Medicare patients.
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Strengthening third-party audits to reduce pollution
Evidence from a randomized evaluation informed the scale-up of a pollution audit policy in Gujarat, India.
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Define intake and consent process
Far from a simple administrative step, decisions about a study’s intake and consent process are critical for the success of a study. This process can affect statistical power, bias, and the validity of the study through effects on the composition of the consented study sample, the intake/consent...
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Sabhya Gupta
Sabhya Gupta is a Research, Training and Education Associate at J-PAL Global where she supports and develops training courses. She also works on projects related to research quality and data publication.
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Parental engagement to improve children's schooling
The French Ministry of Education has expanded a parental involvement program to all public schools in the country on a voluntary basis.
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Targeting the ultra-poor to improve livelihoods
A multifaceted livelihood program has reached and improved the standard of living for more than three million households across more than 15 countries following randomized evaluations by J-PAL affiliates.
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Fund flow reform for social program delivery
Central and state governments in India have adopted a financial reform to enhance public service delivery informed by evidence.