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Increasing Financial Aspirations to Improve Financial Decision-Making and Outcomes in the Philippines
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test whether encouraging entrepreneurs to raise their aspirations helped them improve their financial decisions and outcomes. The aspirations training led individuals to set higher savings goals, but most participants failed to achieve their goals.
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Nishant Lodha
Nishant Lodha is the Training Manager at J-PAL South Asia where he works on unlocking the potential of using administrative data with government and non-government partners, capacity building on data use, development of knowledge products, policy dissemination and data research projects.
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Yash Dumaswala
Yash Dumaswala is responsible for project design and its implementation on the ground.
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Divya Menon
Divya Menon is the Human Resource Assistant at J-PAL South Asia where she is responsible for HR functions.
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Behind the scenes with researchers from the Baby’s First Years study
Baby’s First Years (BFY), a J-PAL North America-funded study, recently published results showing that monthly cash support impacts infant brain activity. In an interview with J-PAL staff, J-PAL affiliated professor Lisa Gennetian (Duke University) and researcher Kimberly Noble (Teachers College...
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Evaluation
The Impact of Transportation and Information Access on Women’s Job Search and Employment in Pakistan
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of increased access to transportation and assistance with interview scheduling on women’s employment.
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Evidence-Informed Policymaking in Germany and Beyond
This event will bring together German domestic policymakers, implementers, and actors of the German development cooperation to discuss and learn about evidence use and rigorous impact evaluation. Together we would like to work towards more evidence-informed programming and policymaking in Germany...
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The road to rigorous evaluation: training partnership builds use of evidence in California
This post shares reflections from Joy Bonaguro, California Statewide Chief Data Officer, and Jason Lally, Deputy Chief Data Officer. In September 2021, CalData and J-PAL North America partnered to provide a training on Designing Rigorous Evaluations of Government Programs to participants from...
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End the pandemic of violence against women
To end violence against women and girls requires effective prevention strategies that target its root causes. Such programs address pervasive inequalities and power differentials—especially gender norms that justify and normalize violence against women and girls.
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February 2022 J-PAL North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's February newsletter features a new evidence review on sectoral employment programs, research results from a study of financial aid take-up, and ways we are leveraging tutoring evidence to inform federal policy conversations.
Policy insight
Improving student learning: Impacts by gender
Most programs to improve student learning have similar impacts on girls and boys. However, policymakers should consider potential different effects by gender while designing programs since, in some cases, program design choices led to different impacts on girls and boys.
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J-PAL South Asia launches ASPIRE with US$6.3 million grant from Veddis Foundation to strengthen the culture of evidence-based policymaking in India
J-PAL South Asia’s efforts to promote policymaking based on scientific evidence and data in India has received a major boost with the launch of the Alliance for Scaling Policy Impact through Research and Evidence (ASPIRE) in partnership with the Veddis Foundation.
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Veddis Foundation and J-PAL South Asia set up ASPIRE to accelerate evidence-based policymaking
New Delhi, India: The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia and Veddis Foundation announced the launch of the Alliance for Scaling Policy Impact through Research and Evidence (ASPIRE) today. ASPIRE aims to spur the adoption of anti-poverty policies rooted in scientific evidence...