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Piyali Chatterjee
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Hemanth Guthala
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Naveen Kumar
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Suriya Ansari
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Himmat Singh Chouhan
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J-PAL MENA Newsletter March 2021
Newsletter updates on evidence-informed policy making in the MENA region.
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July 2022 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's July newsletter features our Economics Transformation Project blog series and new research results on a STEM pipeline program and the Nurse-Family Partnership program.
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Providing Conditional Cash Transfers to Encourage Childhood Immunization in Pakistan
In Pakistan, researchers conducted an evaluation to test the impact of different types of mobile conditional cash transfers (mCCTs) on childhood immunization coverage and timeliness. Overall, small mCCTs led to increases in rates of immunization coverage at a low administrative cost. Additionally, researchers found that design details like payment certainty, schedule, and delivery method are important considerations.
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School's Out: How Summer Youth Employment Programs Impact Academic Outcomes (in Boston)
Researchers evaluated the impact of Boston’s Summer Youth Employment Program, which uses a lottery to provide youth with part-time work and skills training during the summer, on students’ educational outcomes. The program significantly increased high school graduation rates among participating students, partly by reducing dropout and absenteeism rates.
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Vaseem Ahmed
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Beyond the evidence: Reflections from a past high school tutor
Research Associate Lisa Turley Smith recounts her experience as a high school tutor and shares how she saw first-hand the positive impacts of tutoring.
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Impacts of Nonpartisan Political Information on Electoral Accountability in Mexico
Leveraging the increasingly widespread use of social media, researchers conducted a large-scale randomized evaluation to test the direct and indirect impact on electoral accountability of a nonpartisan information campaign delivered via Facebook ads during the 2018 Mexican municipal elections. Incumbent parties with negligible corruption levels saw their vote share increase by 6-7 percentage points in localities targeted by the Facebook ads.
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Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from a randomized Medicare payment reform
Researchers evaluated the impact of the mandatory-participation bundled payment model for hospitals and explored which hospitals were incentivized to opt in to bundled payments after the model was later made voluntary. The mandatory-participation bundled payment program produced modest reductions in Medicare claims, but the voluntary program produced smaller declines in Medicare claims than if the mandatory program had continued.
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Government of Odisha partners with Breakthrough and J-PAL South Asia to introduce gender equity program in 23,000 government schools in the state
The Government of Odisha’s Department of School and Mass Education today announced its partnership with Breakthrough and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to integrate a gender equity curriculum into the syllabus for students across government schools in the state.