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Liza Setya Eka Hasul
Liza Setya Eka Hasul is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia. She is currently working on a randomized trial to assess the impact of home-based growth chart on child linear growth in Indonesia.
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IFII Blog Series: Applying a gender lens in measuring the impact of DFS on women’s empowerment
In the second installment of the IFII blog series, we discuss the importance of applying a gender lens to measuring impact and share practical considerations for measuring empowerment.
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A federal office to bolster evidence-based policymaking
J-PAL staff and affiliates contributed to the creation of the Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES) to improve the capacity of US federal agencies to build and use rigorous evidence and continue to partner with OES to aid this mission.
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Communicating Covid-19 messages at scale via social media
Researchers applied insights from earlier Covid-19 messaging research to launch a large-scale Facebook messaging campaign and corresponding evaluation reaching more than 35 million people.
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Providing Financial Incentives and Behavioral Nudges to Encourage Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake in the United States
Researchers evaluated the impact of financial incentives, public health video messages, and access to a vaccine scheduling link on Covid-19 vaccination intentions and vaccine take-up in the United States. None of the interventions led to increases in vaccine take-up after thirty days. In a subsequent study, researchers found that personal reminder messages led to increases in booster vaccination rates while monetary incentives had no additional impact.
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Reducing Covid-19 Infections and Holiday Travel through Social Media Campaigns in the United States
By running a Facebook public health campaign, researchers found that social media messaging from doctors and nurses reduced holiday travel and subsequent Covid-19 infection rates. This suggests that social media campaigns may be an impactful and cost-effective way to slow the spread of Covid-19 and enact behavior change.
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The Effects of Free Drinking Water Treatment on Child Survival in Kenya
Diarrhea is a leading cause of death in children under the age of 5, but adding small amounts of chlorine into water can treat water and prevent a large number of these deaths. Providing free dispensers for chlorine to treat water reduced under-five mortality. Children living in villages with dilute chlorine solution dispensers were 63 percent less likely to die relative to the comparison group.
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Astuti Kusumaningrum
Astuti Kusumaningrum (Tuti) is a returning Research Manager at J-PAL South East Asia where she works on the projects Reach Up and Learn and Disaster Index Insurance.
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Evaluating an agricultural mobile marketplace at scale in Uganda
On Tuesday, November 9, Craig McIntosh (Professor of Economics at University of California, San Diego) and co-director of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI), shared evidence from one of the largest market information experiments ever conducted. Jenna Fahle, CEGA Agriculture...
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Testing the impact of antimalarial discounts on overtreatment in Mali
Researchers varied patients’ information about a discount on treatment for simple malaria and measuring take-up of treatment to identify the factors driving overtreatment. While patient pressure on doctors in response to the discount led to excess prescription of antimalarials, there was no evidence of doctors strategically using the vouchers to direct patients toward expensive treatment options.
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Register for the How Can We Improve Social Inclusion at Scale Through Education Interventions? webinar
Register for the How Can We Improve Social Inclusion at Scale Through Education Interventions? webinar.
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The Impact of Light-touch Employer-led Interventions on Attitudes Around Women’s Work in India
Researchers evaluated the impact of two light-touch interventions (an orientation video for families, and a guided conversation between women and their families) on gender norms related to women’s work and increase labor force participation. Researchers did not find meaningful changes in support of women’s work nor in rates of employment among women that received these interventions.
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November 2021 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's November newsletter features the office's GivingTuesday campaign to alleviate poverty through an evidence-based approach to the American Rescue Plan; a new blog post featuring RIP Medical Debt's ongoing evaluation to assess its model for buying and relieving medical debt; and a...
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The Medium-Term Educational Effects of Short-Term Literacy Tutoring in Chile
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to gauge whether a short-term reading tutoring program could improve a range of student educational outcomes in the short- and medium-term (up to eight years after the program). They found that the program increased language test scores in the short term and improved several outcomes in the medium term, including reducing students’ probability of dropout, increasing their probability of graduating on time from primary and secondary school, and improving attendance, grades and test scores.
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Hiring Additional Instructors in Childcare Centers in India Improved Learning and Nutrition
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on the impact of adding an additional education-focused worker in early childhood development centers on students’ learning and health outcomes. The program increased the time spent on pre-school education, boosting learning in math, reading, and executive function. It also allowed the main worker to devote more time to health and nutrition, reducing severe malnutrition and stunting.