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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.
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Valentina Olivares
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Naretta Veronica
Naretta Veronica is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where she currently works on the disaster index insurance project in Nusa Tenggara.
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Gaby Bustamante
Gaby Bustamante is a Senior Policy and Communications Associate at J-PAL LAC where she works to effectively communicate policy projects as well as important achievements and milestones of the office.
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Affiliate Spotlight: Seema Jayachandran
Seema Jayachandran is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. Seema currently serves on J-PAL's board of directors and is the chair of J-PAL's gender sector. Her research focuses on economic issues in low- and middle-income that persist in spite of overall economic growth, including...
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Environmental inspections for pollution regulation enforcement in China
n collaboration with China’s National Environmental Inspection Program, researchers are evaluating the impact of reporting firms’ hourly emissions data to environmental inspectors on the likelihood of firms being inspected, local air pollution, local economic output, and health outcomes.