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Evaluation
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.
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Rigorous testing of social policies in Europe: What are we learning?
Researchers in the J-PAL network have conducted over 80 ongoing or completed randomized evaluations of social programs and policies across 20 European countries, with a particular focus on education and labor markets. J-PAL Europe has launched a summary of insights generated from this research.
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Bruno Crépon
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Amanda Girard
Amanda Girard is a Senior Designer at J-PAL Global, where she leads organization-wide design efforts, brand management, and photography curation, and supports on web design and video production. Amanda holds a BFA in Graphic Design and Photography from the State University of New York at New Paltz.
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Carmen Maura Taveras
Carmen Maura Taveras is a Research Manager at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), where she works on a project to assess the impact of information campaigns on the returns to education in the Dominican Republic. Prior to joining J-PAL, in 2013 she worked as a consultant at Fundación...
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State and local policy responses to COVID-19: Lessons from evidence
J-PAL North America has curated a set of randomized evaluations that tested specific policy options related to the social safety net, health, and education. Our goal is to provide actionable evidence to inform state and local leaders’ policy responses to challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jhony Bien-Aime
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Kathryn McDermott
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Covid-19-induced crises of hunger and poverty require bold, effective international response
The Biden Administration has affirmed its commitment to work with other countries and multilateral institutions to combat Covid-19 to advance global health security. We commend this spirit of partnership and we urge similar bold, evidence-informed global action to tackle the accompanying crises of...
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Global Evidence for Egypt Spotlight Seminar: Social Norms and Gender
Please join us for the upcoming Global Evidence for Egypt spotlight webinar on social norms and gender, which will focus on what global evidence tells us about shifting social and gender norms for improved development outcomes in favor of girls and women, consider if norms can shift, and discuss...
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Vivian Bronsoler
Vivian Bronsoler is a Senior Manager for Mexico and Central America and joined J-PAL LAC in 2014. Based in Mexico, she works on the promotion of scientific evidence to inform policy in Mexico and Central America by building partnerships with policymakers, providing technical assistance, and...