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Caitlin Tulloch, J-PAL ‘13, on innovation in cost-effectiveness analyses and building effective policy partnerships
Caitlin Tulloch joined J-PAL Global in 2009, where she played a central role in building the infrastructure for our policy efforts, establishing our approach to cost-effectiveness analysis, and building partnerships with policymakers. Now the associate director of Best Use of Resources at the...
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Luc Behaghel
Luc Behaghel is a Chaired Professor at the Paris School of Economics, Researcher and Director of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), IZA Research fellow, co-director of CEPREMAP's Labor program, and a CREST affiliate. His research interests go from labor market and education...
Evaluation
Combining In-School and Out-of-School Programs to Improve Learning in India
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of the combination of an in-school learning program with an out-of-school learning program on primary school math and reading levels. The combination of the two programs led to a significant increase in children's test scores in both math and language.
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Policy Insights in Agriculture
J-PAL’s Agriculture sector focuses on improving agricultural systems in developing countries. Our policy insights below summarize general lessons from randomized evaluations on providing credit and information to smallholder farmers and protecting them from risk.
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Policy Insights in Crime, Violence, and Conflict
J-PAL’s Crime, Violence, and Conflict sector focuses on promoting safe communities and designing effective policies to manage and reduce violence and conflict. The policy insights below summarize lessons from randomized evaluations on the impact of economic interventions to reduce intimate partner...
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Innovative Health Care Delivery to Reduce Poverty Conference
At this two-day conference in Cambridge, health care experts and practitioners explored opportunities for research, innovation, and evidence-informed policymaking to address a range of national health care challenges.
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What Have We Learned? Improving Development Policy Through Impact Evaluation
On December 6, J-PAL and the Center for Global Development (CGD) will host an event to take stock of the evidence and impact evaluation movement and its promise for improving social policy in developing countries. Join the live stream.
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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...