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The Impact of Personalized SMS Messages to Parents on Student Achievement in Kenya
Researchers are partnering with Bridge International Academies to evaluate the impact of an SMS-based information provision program on students’ learning outcomes in Kenya.
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The devil’s in the details (of adapting and scaling evidence-based programs)
J-PAL Senior Policy Associate Robert Rogers discusses his experience working on an education scale-up in Cote d'Ivoire.
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J-PAL Europe announces new project funding, expanded research initiative for tackling challenges of social exclusion of migrants
J-PAL Europe announces new project funding together with BNP Paribas and expanded research initiative for tackling challenges of social exclusion of migrants.
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Reaching the most vulnerable: Can digitization improve social assistance targeting?
Governments around the world rely on social assistance to reduce poverty, but the poorest are often left behind. To what extent can digital identity and payment systems improve targeting of government transfers?
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The Role of Protest Experience and Social Networks in Protest Movements in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of indirectly incentivizing protest participation on sustained participation in a political movement and to identify the role social networks play in protest turnout. Indirectly incentivizing participants to attend a political protest increased their participation regardless of how many of their peers received the same incentive. Participants’ subsequent protest participation remained persistently higher a year later, but only when at least half of their social network was also incentivized to attend the initial protest.
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Designing adaptive social assistance during COVID-19: A recap from the Evidence for Egypt Spotlight Webinar
To address how existing social assistance programs in Egypt could be enhanced in response to COVID-19 and large external shocks in general, J-PAL MENA and UNICEF Egypt held a webinar on “Social Assistance Response to Large External Shocks in Egypt: What We Can Learn from Randomized Evaluations.”...
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General and Tailored Covid-19 Health Messaging to Minorities in the United States
In the US, recent statistics show that Black and Latinx communities bear a disproportionate burden from Covid-19. Can improved public health messaging ameliorate this situation?
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DigiFI Africa: A pillar of the G7 Partnership for Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa
J-PAL Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI Africa) is honored to be one of the pillars of the G7 Partnership for Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa. Through DigiFI, J-PAL Africa will support gender-specific research to ensure digital innovations promote the...
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African Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Faith Masekesa
Dr. Faith Masekesa joined J-PAL Africa as a postdoctoral research fellow to support our administrative data partnership with the City of Cape Town. Her research interests span development economics, econometrics, experimental and behavioral economics, social protection and social policy.
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African Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Kodjo Aflagah
Dr. Kodjo Aflagah joined the J-PAL Teaching at the Right Level and Digital Identification and Finance Initiative teams, having just completed his PhD in economics at the University of Maryland. His fields of specialization include development economics and applied econometrics, with a particular...
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Affiliate Spotlight: Karthik Muralidharan
Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego and also serves as a J-PAL Board member and co-chair of the Education sector. A pioneering researcher in education and service delivery, Karthik has profoundly influenced social service...
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Cristine von Dessauer
Cristine von Dessauer joined J-PAL LAC as a Research Associate in September 2020. x
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Using smartphones to trace mobility during regional lockdowns in Indonesia
Using de-identified location data captured in smartphones, researchers worked with J-PAL Southeast Asia to study movement patterns to analyze how Indonesians changed their behaviors during the initial phases of COVID-19 and during the lockdown.