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Contact J-PAL Africa
J-PAL Africa was established in August 2010 at the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. J-PAL Africa has a satellite office in Johannesburg.
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DEDP MicroMasters Program
Tackle the world’s most pressing problems from a rigorous, evidence-driven perspective with content and faculty from MIT’s Department of Economics and J-PAL.
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Measurement and Survey Design
In this course, participants learn what information is needed to answer their policy or research questions, how to design good survey instruments, how to pilot and refine a survey, and how to develop field protocols.
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Online Courses
J-PAL’s online courses bring our training materials on impact evaluation to a worldwide audience.
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Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram is on leave as a J-PAL affiliate. She is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the US Treasury. To visit her personal website, click here.
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State and Local Innovation Initiative Partners
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What Works to Enhance Women’s Agency
This literature review draws from 160 randomized and natural experiments in low and middle-income countries to distill key lessons on what we know about supporting women’s agency based on quantitative evidence.
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Hunt Allcott
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Leonardo Bursztyn
Leonardo Bursztyn is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on understanding how individuals make schooling, political, and financial decisions, and, in particular, how these decisions are shaped by individuals' social environment.
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African scholars: Refine your randomized evaluation skills through the DigiFI Webinar Series
Local researchers often have a uniquely deep understanding of the context in which they work, which is key to developing well-grounded evaluations. The J-PAL Africa team, including DigiFI Africa led by Tavneet Suri, are committed to providing a mechanism for local African scholars to drive the...
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Branchless Banking Agents’ Profile, Limitations, and Potential for Agent Network Expansion and Improvement”
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation in East Java, Indonesia to investigate the impact of the level and transparency of financial incentives on the take-up of these new banking services. They found that larger incentives caused an increase in take-up, but only when the incentives were not publicized among the community. When incentives are made public, higher incentives instead have no effect on take-up, despite greater agent effort.
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King Climate Action Initiative’s first round of projects: Testing and scaling climate solutions
J-PAL's King Climate Action Initiative announced the results of its first competition aimed at identifying innovative solutions at the intersection of poverty and climate change, serving as a critical first step in building a longer playbook of evidence-based and cost-effective climate change...
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Elisabeth Sadoulet
Elisabeth Sadoulet is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests span agricultural technologies, microcredit, conservation, conditional cash transfers, and property rights. Sadoulet has conducted field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America...
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Meredith Fowlie
Meredith Fowlie is an Associate Professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the intersection of industrial organization, energy markets, and environmental economics.
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Yamina Mohattane
Yamina is J-PAL's Morocco Employment Lab Project Manager, where she provides operational support to set up and grow the Lab’s organizational and financial management capabilities.