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Leveraging technology to improve child-caregiver interactions at scale
Can technology be used to improve child-caregiver interactions and support child development? Traditional parenting interventions are often costly and tightly controlled, which limits their large-scale implementation. A low-cost intervention called Crianza Positiva, delivering text and audio...
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Of satellites and surveys: How innovative data collection can speed up climate action
This Earth Day blog post discusses how we speed up the path from research to policy action at J-PAL through the King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI), which prioritizes funding research and scaling that uses administrative and remote sensing data to generate results in a timely manner.
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Rita Nasr
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Colfax Phillips
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Angelica Bozzi
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Samih Ferrah
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Augustin Bergeron
Augustin Bergeron is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Southern California. His research interests are at the intersection of development economics, public economics, and political economy.
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Sylvain Chassang
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Matthias Sutter
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Lucia Corno
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Mathias Sinning
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Olga Stoddard
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Positive Psychology for Psychological Well-Being and Decision-Making in Kenya
In Kenya, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a light-touch positive psychology intervention on psychological well-being and economic decision-making for low-income populations. The intervention had a positive impact on gratitude; however, it had no significant impacts on psychological well-being or decision-making.
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J-PAL updates
July 2023 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's July newsletter features a new policy brief on court nonappearance; new research results on effective legal representation; and an op-ed on summer jobs programs.
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