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Natalie Valent
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Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan is a University Professor, Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science, and George C. Tiao Faculty Fellow at Chicago Booth. He has conducted a randomized evaluation of racial bias in hiring in the US, examined the impact of cash transfers to the elderly in South Africa.
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US Health Care Delivery Initiative
J-PAL North America’s US Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) supports randomized evaluations of strategies that aim to make health care delivery in the United States more efficient, effective, and equitable.
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North America Social Policy Research Initiative
J-PAL North America's Social Policy Research Initiative (SPRI), formerly known as the General Research Initiative, supports randomized impact evaluations of innovative social programs and policies that can provide insights for learning which policies work best and why.
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Social Policy Research Initiative Request for Proposals
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State and Local Innovation Request for Proposals
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Iqbal Dhaliwal
Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal is the Global Executive Director of J-PAL since January 2018. He works with the Board of Directors to develop the organization’s strategic vision, and with the leadership of the seven regional offices to coordinate J-PAL’s worldwide research, policy outreach, capacity building...
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Julie Cobill
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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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Shruthi Srinivasan
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Innovation for MSME Development Initiative Request for Proposals
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Union Leaders and Factory Workers’ Collective Action in Myanmar
Labor movements can improve workers’ lives but face great difficulty in getting workers to agree on common goals and take collective actions. In garment factory workers’ group discussions on minimum wage policies in Myanmar, researchers randomly included union leaders to study whether the presence of union leaders affected workers’ preferences and behavior. Union leaders’ presence at group discussions increased the degree of agreement between the workers’ and unions’ preferred wage levels, and made it more likely that workers participated in a subsequent group activity, suggesting that union leaders both helped form workers’ consensus and motivated them to take collective actions. Researchers found evidence that union leaders’ influence on these outcomes came from the leaders’ ability and skills rather than formal title or social ties.
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Evidence-Based Medicine for Family Planning in Jordan
Researchers partnered with USAID to study the impact of Evidence-Based Medicine programs on changing family planning providers’ biases against injectable contraceptives. Overall, researchers found no change in provider practices and self-reported prescriptions.
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