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Kartini Shastry
Blog
Bridging gaps in health care: The impact of investigator diversity on clinical trials
J-PAL affiliated researcher Marcella Alsan and coauthors Romaine Campbell, Lukas Leister, and Ayotomiwa Ojo share insights from their research on how investigator racial diversity affects clinical trial participation by Black respondents.
Evaluation
Letters of Recommendation for Youth Employment in the United States
Researchers partnered with SYEP employers to create personalized letters of recommendation for SYEP participants to evaluate the impact of recommendation letters on participants’ educational and employment outcomes after the program. Youth who received the letter of recommendation saw a 3 percentage point increase in employment in the first year after SYEP participation and, over four years, made $545 more than those who did not receive letters of recommendation.
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Miranda Aisha Putri
Policy Publication
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Will Technology Transform Education for the Better?
In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the transformative potential of technology in education. The hype around education technology is rapidly outpacing evaluation of ed tech programs. How do we ensure that these innovative tools are actually helping our students learn? And...
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Daniel Masterson
Evidence to Policy Case Study
Case study
Individualized tutoring to improve learning
Saga Education’s intensive math tutoring program has been shown to improve academic outcomes and has now reached 12,000 students facing barriers in the United States.
Blog
New tutoring resource: A learning path for evidence-based tutoring implementation
J-PAL North America and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) created the Implementing Evidence-Based Tutoring for High Impact learning path to give local education agencies and tutoring providers easily accessible information about effective program components and how to...
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Patricio Dalton
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Erica Field
Erica Field is a Professor of Economics and Global Health at Duke University. Her current research examines the link between health investments and economic mobility.
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Regina Satagaj Orrock
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Ragui Assaad
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Daniel Bennett
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The India Climate and Health Data Capacity Accelerator
Data.org and J-PAL South Asia launched the India Climate and Health Data Capacity Accelerator in May 2023, with support from Wellcome. The Accelerator aims to create a sustainable and scalable model to strengthen the data capacity of the social sector in India.