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J-PAL updates
June 2023 Newsletter
Our June 2023 Newsletter features the first of J-PAL's 20 for 20:Partner Voices blog series, the latest evidence on microcredit, and an alumni of of J-PAL and MIT’s Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) master’s program.
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The Impact of Quality Upgrading and Market Access on Farmers’ Productivity and Profits in Uganda
In western Uganda, researchers conducted a series of randomized evaluations that assessed the impact of introducing a combination of post-harvest services, training on agricultural best practices, and access to a market for high-quality maize on farmers’ productivity and profits. Researchers found that the extension services only intervention had little to no impacts on productivity and farmer profits.
Update
J-PAL updates
July 2023 Newsletter
J-PAL introduces a new cohort of Middle East/North Africa scholars and a new public policy track in the DEDP MicroMasters program. We also shine a spotlight on J-PAL Affiliated Professor, Raquel Bernal, and discuss findings related to improving mental health and low- and middle-income contexts.
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Arth Depuri
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Clémence Lobut
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Jon Robinson
Jonathan Robinson is an professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research is primarily focused in sub-Saharan Africa, and includes studies of how individuals cope with risk, a project to understand why farmers do not adopt potentially profitable agricultural...
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Kate Orkin
Kate Orkin is a faculty member in economics and public policy at the University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government.
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Paolo Falco
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Nick Tsivanidis
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Mushfiq Mobarak
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a professor of economics at Yale University. He also co-chairs the Urban Services Initiative at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, and leads the Bangladesh Research Program for the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE and Oxford.
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Supreet Kaur
Supreet Kaur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is in development economics and behavioral economics, with a focus on labor markets.
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Rachel Glennerster
Rachel Glennerster is an associate professor of economics in the Division of Social Science at the University of Chicago.
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Juliana Londoño-Vélez
Juliana is an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.