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Increasing adherence to COVID-19 guidelines: Lessons from existing evidence

J-PAL health sector co-chairs and staff discuss some lessons from the evidence for increasing adherence to Covid-19 guidelines
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Catalyzing research partnerships: matchmaking from A to Z

At J-PAL, we help promote evidence-based policies by ensuring that decision-makers have access to scientific evidence on the questions that matter. But what spurs these research-policy connections in the first place?
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Cristine von Dessauer

Cristine von Dessauer joined J-PAL LAC as a Research Associate in September 2020. x
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Using smartphones to trace mobility during regional lockdowns in Indonesia

Using de-identified location data captured in smartphones, researchers worked with J-PAL Southeast Asia to study movement patterns to analyze how Indonesians changed their behaviors during the initial phases of COVID-19 and during the lockdown.
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Hana Lakhdar Ghazal

Hana is J-PAL's Morocco Employment Lab Senior Project Manager, where she works on running the Lab operations.
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Kacem El Guernaoui

Kacem El Guernaoui is a Senior Research Associate at the Morocco Employment Lab where he supports research engagements and project development.
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Alexia Van Rij

Alexia joined J-PAL MENA in 2020 as a Research Associate.
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Florencia Devoto

Florencia is the Project Director of the Morocco Employment Lab, based at Rabat, where she is responsible for developing the research agenda together with the Lab’s Scientific Directors, coordinating research activities and disseminating policy insights from research.
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September 2020 Newsletter

J-PAL's September 2020 newsletter celebrates the graduates of the Data, Economics, and Development Policy master’s program, welcomes new affiliates, and looks at how evidences can inform responses to the COVID-19 crisis.
Evaluation

The Impact of Training and Cash Grants on Female-Owned Businesses in Sri Lanka

Researchers evaluated the impact of a business training intervention, alone and combined with a cash grant, on the income and other business outcomes for self-employed women in Sri Lanka. Researchers found that business training alone was not sufficient to generate business growth, but when combined with a US$129 cash grant, the business training program appeared to boost profits in the short-term.
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer during their Nobel Prize keynote talks
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December 2019 Newsletter

J-PAL's December 2019 newsletter celebrates Nobel laureates, J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and longtime J-PAL affiliate Michael Kremer, welcomes twelve new affiliate professors, and discusses European Social Inclusion Initiative's first round of grant funding.
Nobel laureates Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo, and Abhijit Banerjee on the Nobel stage in Stockholm
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January 2020 Newsletter

J-PAL's January 2020 newsletter looks back at J-PAL's accomplishments, including launching new initiatives, growing the online MicroMasters program, and J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and longtime affiliate Michael Kremer being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Cash and Microenterprise Support for the Ultra-Poor in Uganda

In partnership with the Association of Volunteers in International Service, researchers evaluated the impact of the Women’s Income Generating Support (WINGS) program, an initiative which provided low-income Ugandan individuals, mainly women, with financial grants, business skills training, and ongoing supervision on individuals’ economic outcomes. The WINGS program improved individuals’ earnings and access to nonfarm business opportunities in postwar Uganda.
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The Impact of Government Subsidies on Private Secondary School Performance in Uganda

Researchers partnered with the Ugandan government to evaluate the impact of a public private partnership (PPP) program with low-cost private secondary schools on absorbing large increases in secondary school enrollment in Uganda. The PPP program led to both greater private school enrollment and higher student performance, with improved performance potentially being linked to increased input availability and positive household-driven selection of PPP student participants.