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J-PAL updates
March 2024 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's March Newsletter features reflections on our recent work and upcoming plans to advance rigorous research on racial equity, including our seven-part blog series on how research plays a critical role in identifying systems and policies that further racial equity.
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Francisca de Iruarrizaga, J-PAL ‘13, on reforming Chile’s child welfare system
Francisca de Iruarrizaga is a former policy and training manager at J-PAL LAC, where she worked to increase the use of evidence in Latin American policymaking and train policymakers in evidence generation and use. Formerly of the Chilean Ministry of Social Development prior to J-PAL, Francisca...
Evidence to Policy Case Study
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Tutoring to accelerate learning
Research has shown that high-dosage tutoring helps students catch up. Governments and agencies across the United States are implementing tutoring programs to accelerate learning in the wake of Covid-19.
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Get to know J-PAL North America’s co-executive directors
Laura Feeney and Vincent Quan discuss their backgrounds before coming to J-PAL North America, how they plan to work together as co-executive directors, and their top priorities in 2022.
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Facing an educational Covid earthquake: An example of scaling up and innovating in Chile
Regardless of what happens with the new variants of Covid-19, our children’s educational process was substantially interrupted. Despite the tenacious efforts of educational communities and families, there is evidence that the negative consequences on educational achievement, socialization, emotional...
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Siddharth Verma
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Nitin Shankar Kanakaraj
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Rigorous evaluations for humanitarian interventions: In conversation with the World Food Programme
J-PAL Europe recently organised a virtual training on randomised evaluations for nearly 50 representatives of humanitarian organisations with the support of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. The programme featured a presentation from Kristen McCollum, an impact evaluation analyst...
Evidence to Policy Case Study
Case study
Providing school quality information to improve housing mobility for low-income families
After research found that providing families with information on school quality increased Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) recipients’ moves to neighborhoods with higher-rated schools, an affordable housing website expanded the provision of school quality information to all of its 60,000 daily site...
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Nis Anim
Update
J-PAL updates
January 2022 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's January Newsletter features ways we are leveraging evidence to promote housing stability, new research results from the Baby's First Years study, and a new op-ed on evidence in education.
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Evidence for Climate Action in Europe
This webinar shed light on the process, benefits, and challenges of using randomised evaluations to generate evidence in the climate action space in Europe.
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AbdelRahman Nagy
AbdelRahman Nagy is a Senior Advisor with J-PAL Middle East and North Africa based in Cairo, Egypt.