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The LA Homelessness Evaluation Network: Supporting service providers in their efforts to generate and use evidence
J-PAL North America is partnering with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to offer LA-based homeless service providers a supportive “community of practice” around rigorous research. Through this effort, we aim to bolster organizations’ ability to generate and use evidence to inform decision-making as...
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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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Housing Lottery to Increase Demand for Formal Government Housing and Improve Welfare in Ethiopia
In low- to middle-income countries around the world, nearly one billion people lived in urban informal settlements as of 2018. Rapid urbanization in most large African cities has led to both more people and a higher proportion of people living in informal settlements over time. Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of winning the housing lottery on the demand for formal government housing, consumption, labor market outcomes, social networks, and community and public goods in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Winning the housing lottery increased demand for formal government housing: nearly 46 percent of participant households that win the lottery chose to move into their formal housing, indicating many prefer to live in government housing despite the high implicit cost that they pay to do so.
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Anjana Kizhpadathil
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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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The Impact of Offering Pay-as-you-go Car Insurance on Covering Drivers in California
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of introducing a pay-as-you-go car insurance contract, which reduces minimum purchase requirements, to uninsured drivers in California. Applicants who were offered this type of insurance were nearly twice as likely to purchase car insurance than those who were offered a traditional car insurance contract, but this impact faded over time.
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The J-PAL dataverse turns 15: Fifteen uses for published RCT data packages
In July, we published a blog describing how to access any of the 130+ datasets (and other materials!) from the J-PAL dataverse, our primary location for publishing data and replication packages produced from the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) our affiliated researchers have run over the past...
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Accelerating financial inclusion in Indonesia through innovations in digital financial services: Early learnings from exploratory and pilot studies
On 26 January 2023, IFII hosted a learning collaborative to share insights from exploratory and pilot studies to inform policy and decision-making in the digital financial inclusion space. Speakers and participants from government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector had the...
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DEDP webinar: Your path to a credential in the MITx MicroMasters® Program
Join us for a sixty-minute webinar about the MicroMasters® program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) to learn more about the program and ask questions in a live Q&A session!
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Chiara Franzoni
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Apurav Bhatia
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Elisa Jacome
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