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Data collection, new RCTs, and policy guidance to inform pandemic response and recovery
The past year has been filled with tragedy and sacrifice—but, critically, also innovation, as researchers and policymakers addressed new challenges with creative solutions. Existing and newly generated evidence has informed many policies over the past year, providing a roadmap for incorporating...
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Building State Capacity for Tax Collection: Emerging Evidence and Implications for Practice
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, tax revenues are equivalent to just 7.5% of GDP , standing in stark contrast to higher-income countries in which tax revenues generate billions of dollars for essential government services. These challenges of domestic resource mobilization are complex and...
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Register for the Building State Capacity for Tax Collection: Emerging Evidence and Implications for Practice Webinar
Registration is now closed for the Building State Capacity for Tax Collection: Emerging Evidence and Implications for Practice Webinar.
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Emerging Challenges for the Post-Covid Era: Addressing Opportunity, Inequality, and Growth
The economic damage of Covid-19 represents the largest economic shock the world has experienced in decades. In Indonesia, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant economic disruption, with adverse impact on jobs and livelihoods, especially among the most vulnerable segments of society. This...
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Register for the Emerging challenges for the post-Covid era: Addressing opportunity, inequality, and growth webinar
Registration is now closed for the Emerging challenges for the post-Covid era: Addressing opportunity, inequality, and growth webinar.
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Jostin Kitmang
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Breaking the glass ceiling in economics and policy, one conversation at a time
Read our interview with Prerna Kundu and Prashansa Srivastava, Co-Founders of Women in Economics and Policy, and Research Associates at J-PAL South Asia.
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Responses to Economic and Security Risks During Covid-19 in Lagos, Nigeria
Researchers studied the economic, social, and security impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on informal market vendors in Lagos, Nigeria through a phone survey. Nearly half of respondents reported that their marketplaces were closed entirely, and only 1.5 percent of respondents reported that their...
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Register for the Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19 webinar
Registration is now closed. The Covid Dialogues: Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19 webinar was held on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.
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Using Phone Surveys to Improve Public Service Delivery and Guide Crisis Response
In low- and middle-income countries, regular program monitoring for improving public service delivery and the beneficiary experience is often constrained by slow, indirect processes such as periodic government surveys as well as unrepresentative, sporadic data from government dashboards and...
Evaluation
Understanding Borrowers' Decisions: Payday Loans in the United States
Researchers partnered with a large payday lender in Indiana to conduct an evaluation to better understand consumers’ decision-making. The results suggest that average borrowers can anticipate their probability of taking loans in the future. However, people focus too much on the present when making decisions about payday loans, a behavior that they would like to change.
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Covid Dialogues: Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19
This Covid Dialogues webinar will share policy-relevant evidence on online learning, parental engagement, and girls’ education to address education access, quality, and equity challenges resulting from and exacerbated by Covid-19.
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Leveraging behavioral insights to increase savings in low- and middle-income countries
This week, J-PAL published a new Policy Bulletin on the most effective approaches for helping individuals and families in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) build up their savings. The Bulletin reviews twelve randomized evaluations and finds that commitment savings products–voluntary...
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Jakob Svensson
Jakob Svensson is the Director and a Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University. His research interests include corruption, accountability in service delivery programs, and political economy.
Evaluation
The Impact of Information on Preferences for Allocating Land in Nepal
Researchers introduced a randomized information intervention to see if providing information on how different allocation methods work would shift the preferences of beneficiaries of a Nepalese land allocation program. On average, the information intervention did not change preferences for how land should be allocated, and about half of participants still preferred allocation methods that were less likely to match them with their desired plot of land.