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Hana Lakhdar Ghazal
Hana is J-PAL's Morocco Employment Lab Senior Project Manager, where she works on running the Lab operations.
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Kacem El Guernaoui
Kacem El Guernaoui is a Senior Research Associate at the Morocco Employment Lab where he supports research engagements and project development.
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J-PAL updates
September 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL's September 2020 newsletter celebrates the graduates of the Data, Economics, and Development Policy master’s program, welcomes new affiliates, and looks at how evidences can inform responses to the COVID-19 crisis.
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The Impact of Training and Cash Grants on Female-Owned Businesses in Sri Lanka
Researchers evaluated the impact of a business training intervention, alone and combined with a cash grant, on the income and other business outcomes for self-employed women in Sri Lanka. Researchers found that business training alone was not sufficient to generate business growth, but when combined with a US$129 cash grant, the business training program appeared to boost profits in the short-term.
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J-PAL updates
December 2019 Newsletter
J-PAL's December 2019 newsletter celebrates Nobel laureates, J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and longtime J-PAL affiliate Michael Kremer, welcomes twelve new affiliate professors, and discusses European Social Inclusion Initiative's first round of grant funding.
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J-PAL updates
January 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL's January 2020 newsletter looks back at J-PAL's accomplishments, including launching new initiatives, growing the online MicroMasters program, and J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and longtime affiliate Michael Kremer being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Cash and Microenterprise Support for the Ultra-Poor in Uganda
In partnership with the Association of Volunteers in International Service, researchers evaluated the impact of the Women’s Income Generating Support (WINGS) program, an initiative which provided low-income Ugandan individuals, mainly women, with financial grants, business skills training, and ongoing supervision on individuals’ economic outcomes. The WINGS program improved individuals’ earnings and access to nonfarm business opportunities in postwar Uganda.
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The Impact of Government Subsidies on Private Secondary School Performance in Uganda
Researchers partnered with the Ugandan government to evaluate the impact of a public private partnership (PPP) program with low-cost private secondary schools on absorbing large increases in secondary school enrollment in Uganda. The PPP program led to both greater private school enrollment and higher student performance, with improved performance potentially being linked to increased input availability and positive household-driven selection of PPP student participants.
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Digital IDs: The good, the bad, and the unknown
As policymakers across Africa are increasingly investing in digital identification systems, the Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI) explores what the benefits, challenges, and unknowns are.
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Gabriel Cruz
Gabriel Cruz is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL LAC, where he works on several projects related to understanding the effects of public policies on education, pensions, among other topics lead by Prof. Claudia Allende (Stanford University).
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Lauren Roode
Lauren is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Africa where she works with affiliates, policymakers and practitioners to further the J-PAL agenda of using evidence to inform policy.
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Thomas Ferreira
Thomas Ferreira is a Senior Data Associate at J-PAL Africa working on the Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) Initiative.
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Faith Masekesa
Faith holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies of Japan.