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Claire Walsh
Claire Walsh is Associate Director of Policy at J-PAL Global at MIT. She works with policymakers and J-PAL affiliated researchers around the world to share insights from randomized evaluations and promote evidence informed policy to reduce poverty and fight climate change.
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Social Contact in Divided Societies: Emerging Insights and Implications for Practice
Please join for the first webinar in a series focused on showcasing emerging results and policy lessons from the first three years of J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action’s Governance, Crime, and Conflict Initiative (GCCI). This first event webinar in the GCCI webinar series will explore if...
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Short- and Long-term Effects of the Lockdown on Young Rural Migrants from Bihar and Jharkhand
Researchers assessed the short- and long-term effects of the lockdown on labor migrants from Bihar and Jharkhand. Initial phone surveys find that 45 percent of migrant who resided outside of their home state in the pre-lockdown period had returned to their home state, 32 percent who had salaried...
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Assessing Skill Gaps and Unemployment Patterns In Tamil Nadu: Extension Survey on the Impact of Covid-19 on Labor Market Scenarios for Industrial Training Institute Youth
Researchers studied the employment status and aspirations of youth (including graduates, dropouts, and current students) enrolled in Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) in Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2019. Surveys focused on the principal activities these youth were engaged in before the onset of Covid...
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Promoting upward mobility in partnership with state and local governments: The intersection of gender, race, health, and poverty alleviation
This blog post is part two of three in a series on how state and local governments in the United States can promote upward mobility in their communities. It is part of J-PAL North America’s work to develop a learning agenda that summarizes the core research priorities from state and local...
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Aprajit Mahajan
Aprajit Mahajan is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Mahajan’s research interests are in development and econometrics with a regional focus on India.
Evaluation
Building Footbridges to Improve Market Access and Agricultural Outcomes in Rwanda
In partnership with Bridges to Prosperity, the researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation across 23 districts in Rwanda to determine the impact of building footbridges on wages and agricultural technology adoption and production.
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Reflections from seven years of research in J-PAL’s Post-Primary Education Initiative
J-PAL’s Post-Primary Education Initiative has funded more than 140 projects since its inception in 2013. We reflect on what we’ve learned through this research—and where we go from here.
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The Long-Term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers in Honduras
Researchers used census data in Honduras to determine the impact of PRAF-II, a CCT program, 13 years after it began. They found that the CCT program had positive impacts on educational attainment and international migration for non-indigenous individuals, but had more mixed impacts on marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes.
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Voices from the field: Enumerator spotlight
J-PAL affiliates have now conducted over 1,000 randomized evaluations in 84 countries, scaling up a Nobel Prize-winning approach to poverty alleviation research. To celebrate this milestone, we’re highlighting the people who have facilitated this research throughout the years.
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Ruben Menon
Ruben Menon joined J-PAL South Asia in June 2012 as the Director of Finance and Operations. Ruben comes in with 15 years of experience in the NGO sector, particularly health, and has worked with International NGOs like Population Services International (PSI) and Care India.
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Alessandro Tarozzi
Alessandro Tarozzi is an Associate Professor (on leave) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Professor at European University Institute (EUI). His current research centers on factors that limit access and uptake of health-protecting technologies in developing countries.
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Josefa Aguirre
Josefa Aguirre joined J-PAL LAC in 2012 and holds a master’s degree in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is currently working on an evaluation of the Subvencion Escolar Preferencial program, which provides schools with extra subsidies for vulnerable children.
Policy insight
Reducing community college dropout through comprehensive supports
Providing community college students with a wide range of comprehensive supports, such as counseling, tutoring, and financial assistance, can improve low rates of persistence and graduation. These support programs address many simultaneous barriers that students face, which may be a key driver...