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Innovation, Data and Experiments in Education (IDEE)
The Innovation, Data and Experiments in Education (IDEE) programme helps education researchers produce actionable evidence in France by facilitating access to administrative data, providing research resources and measurement tools, and structuring partnerships with policy-makers and practitioners.
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Vanessa Cheng
Vanessa is Research Associate at J-PAL LAC and she works on a project with the Ministry of Economy of Peru to identify innovation opportunities to improve the system and the management of human resources of public officials at the national, regional and local levels.
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Breaking the glass ceiling in economics and policy, one conversation at a time
Read our interview with Prerna Kundu and Prashansa Srivastava, Co-Founders of Women in Economics and Policy, and Research Associates at J-PAL South Asia.
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Responses to Economic and Security Risks During Covid-19 in Lagos, Nigeria
Researchers studied the economic, social, and security impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on informal market vendors in Lagos, Nigeria through a phone survey. Nearly half of respondents reported that their marketplaces were closed entirely, and only 1.5 percent of respondents reported that their...
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Register for the Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19 webinar
Register for the Covid Dialogues: Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19 webinar on June 8, 2021.
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Using Phone Surveys to Improve Public Service Delivery and Guide Crisis Response
In low- and middle-income countries, regular program monitoring for improving public service delivery and the beneficiary experience is often constrained by slow, indirect processes such as periodic government surveys as well as unrepresentative, sporadic data from government dashboards and...
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Understanding Borrowers' Decisions: Payday Loans in the United States
Researchers partnered with a large payday lender in Indiana to conduct an evaluation to better understand consumers’ decision-making. The results suggest that average borrowers can anticipate their probability of taking loans in the future. However, people focus too much on the present when making decisions about payday loans, a behavior that they would like to change.
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Covid Dialogues: Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19
This Covid Dialogues webinar will share policy-relevant evidence on online learning, parental engagement, and girls’ education to address education access, quality, and equity challenges resulting from and exacerbated by Covid-19.
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Leveraging behavioral insights to increase savings in low- and middle-income countries
This week, J-PAL published a new Policy Bulletin on the most effective approaches for helping individuals and families in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) build up their savings. The Bulletin reviews twelve randomized evaluations and finds that commitment savings products–voluntary...
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Training of Trainers for the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence Program
The Morocco Employment Lab will be hosting a virtual Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop intended to equip Moroccan instructors to teach EPoD’s Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) blended learning curriculum, with the goal of improving the technical skills and motivation needed to...
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Government of Punjab, J-PAL South Asia, and EPIC India launch an Emissions Trading Scheme to reduce industrial air pollution in the state
The Government of Punjab’s Department of Industry & Commerce and the Department of Science, Technology & Environment is partnering with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC India) to launch the use of an...
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Affiliate Spotlight: Shawn Cole
Shawn Cole is a Co-Founder and Chair of the Board at Precision Development (PxD), the John G McLean Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and serves as a Co-Chair for J-PAL’s Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) Initiative. For over twenty years, Shawn has...
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Reflecting on the benefits of evaluating a health care delivery program: A recap from the HCDI @ 8 Convening
This spring, the US Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) hosted its second convening, HCDI @ 8. We reflect on these discussions, highlighting why an organization may want to evaluate their program with a randomized evaluation.
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Ziyanda Stuurman
Before joining J-PAL, Ziyanda has worked as a Policy Researcher in the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as a Program and Campaign Manager for Digify Africa, and as a Senior Program Assistant at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) headquarters in New York City.
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Growing the research agenda on women’s work
Through the Gender and Economic Agency Initiative (GEA), J-PAL is catalyzing a new body of innovative research on women’s work to support policymakers in implementing policies to support working women during and after the pandemic. GEA is now expanding our research portfolio with support from the...