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Matthew Notowidigdo
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Anisha Sehgal
Anisha Sehgal is a Policy Associate at J-PAL North America where she supports the U.S. Health Care Delivery Initiative and Homelessness and Housing Stability team to generate and disseminate rigorous evidence to policymakers and practitioners.
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Alison Fahey
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Stephen Luby
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Asad Islam
Asad Islam is a professor of economics at Monash University, as well as the director of the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES). His recent research focuses on social networks, schooling and health, microfinance, gender, technology adoption, and risk-sharing mechanisms of...
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Costas Meghir
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Karen Macours
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Pamela Jervis
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Matteo Bobba
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Jacobus Cilliers
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Tavneet Suri
Tavneet Suri's research centers on a variety of applied economics issues in sub-Saharan Africa. She uses microeconomic and econometric models to examine the efficiency of household behavior and to understand subsequent policy implications.
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Jeremy Magruder
Jeremy Magruder is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, at University of California, Berkeley.
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Muthoni Ng'ang'a
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The Effects of Middle School Scholarships on Child Marriage in Niger
Government ministries introduced middle school scholarships to cover girls’ transportation, housing, and supplies; researchers evaluated how paying for out-of-pocket expenses affected schooling impacts and child marriage. The researchers found that the intervention reduced girls’ chance of leaving middle school by 53 percent and reduced their chance of getting married as children by 49 percent.