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J-PAL North America and Results for America launch support for state and local leaders to evaluate programs using federal recovery dollars
As state and local leaders leverage federal relief funding to invest in their communities, a new program will support these governments in using data, evaluation, and evidence to advance effective and equitable government programming for generations to come.
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Summer School: Development Methodologies
In partnership with the French Development Agency, the French Fund for Innovation in Development, and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, J-PAL is hosting a summer training course in Rabat, Morocco for African researchers with a demonstrated interest in conducting impact evaluations.
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Affiliate Spotlight: Simone Schaner on lessons learned from advancing evidence-based policy
Simone Schaner is an associate professor (research) of economics at the University of Southern California and co-chair of the Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative. Simone’s interests revolve around decision-making processes within households, especially related to financial access, health care...
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Bea Theda
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Advancing the Agenda in Girls' Education Research
Girls’ education remains a global priority for donors and governments. Many researchers suggest that the research community should coalesce around a set of coherent research priorities to help close gender gaps in education. This article outlines some crucial next steps to advance the research...
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Memoria Anual 2022
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Webinar series: Preparing for graduate study abroad for African students
J-PAL Africa holds a webinar series each year for African students who would like to pursue graduate study in Economics, Public Policy, or related fields in North America or Europe. The webinars are spread throughout the year and aim to provide comprehensive information to African students on what...
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Catherine Michaud-Leclerc
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Adam Baybutt
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In their own words: Female officers on the front lines of gender-targeted police reforms
J-PAL affiliated professor Sandip Sukhtankar (University of Virginia) and co-authors, in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh Police Research and Training Department, conducted a randomised evaluation to test the impact of gender-targeted police reforms in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India.
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Improving Women’s Labor and Welfare Outcomes through Microfinance in Uganda
Researchers in rural Western Uganda tested whether a microfinance program can help women borrowers switch out of subsistence agriculture to other labor activities, such as entrepreneurship or small-scale trading. While microloans helped women switch into service-based jobs including small-scale trading, they had no impact on income, spending, savings, and overall wealth.
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Hazaifa Saber
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Registration for the "Science and the Fight against Poverty" Colloquium
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J-PAL Africa webinar series
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Nurturing the null: Approaching research design with all possibilities in mind
In this blog post, Manasi Deshpande and Rebecca Dizon-Ross shared how they designed a multi-step evaluation to determine if their null findings were due to a failure of their research design or a flaw in their Theory of Change.