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Jiayi (Betty) Qian
Betty Qian is a Summer Policy and Communications Intern at J-PAL Global where she works to support various J-PAL initiatives.
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Juan Carlos Cisneros
Juan Carlos Cisneros is a Policy Intern at J-PAL Global where he works on the Environment, Energy, and Climate Change sector and supports the King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI).
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Adrien Rose
Adrien Rose is a Policy Intern at J-PAL Global where he works with the Environment, Energy and Climate Change sector supporting the King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI). He
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Foundations for student success: Focusing on functional literacy and numeracy
To support education systems to focus on functional literacy and numeracy, UNICEF is partnering with The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL at MIT), Pratham , and Delivery Associates .
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Study finds physicians are effective messengers of Covid-19 information regardless of recipients’ race or political beliefs
A new large-scale randomized evaluation has found that messages delivered by physicians increased knowledge about Covid-19 and use of preventative health measures, like mask-wearing and social distancing, regardless of recipients’ race or political beliefs. This research shows that information...
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Four key lessons for building scale-up partnerships
Scaling up programs that have strong evidence of effectiveness is a vital but often complicated step along the evidence-to-policy journey, and J-PAL has learned a lot about collaborating with policymakers to translate research into large-scale action. In this blog post, Iqbal Dhaliwal (Global...
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Victoire Fribourg
Victoire Fribourg is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where she supports the Labor Market sector and the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative.
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Megan Morris
Megan Morris is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Global where she manages the Gender sector and Finance sector.
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Yvette Ramirez
Yvette Ramirez is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Global, where she manages the Gender sector. In her role on the Policy and Communications team, she writes policy publications, supports the Gender and Economic Agency Initiative, and engages in fundraising efforts.
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Beatriz Velho
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July 2021 Newsletter
In the July 2021 newsletter, we highlight a new op-ed addressing how deeply unequal access to Covid-19 vaccines may be diminishing trust in high-income countries to meet other promises related to climate change.
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Launching the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative African Scholars Program
J-PAL’s Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (JOI) is excited to launch its African Scholars program beginning in the Fall 2021 request for proposal round, which will offer research funding to African scholars (individuals who have completed their PhD in Economics or a related field who are based at an...
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Providing information on wood heating to decrease indoor air pollution in France
Researchers evaluated the impact of general and personalized information regarding the relationship between wood burning and indoor pollution on households’ knowledge of pollution and their pollution mitigation efforts. Both general and personalized information increased households’ awareness of pollution, but only personalized information improved households’ measured air quality.
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Alumni Voices: Reimagining how innovation funders measure and value gender impacts
Rachna Nag Chowdhuri ‘13 (former research manager at J-PAL South Asia) discusses her work at the Global Innovation Fund to reimagine how funders measure and value impact on gender equality outcomes.
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