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Karthik Muralidharan
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AbdelRahman Nagy
AbdelRahman Nagy is a Senior Advisor with J-PAL Middle East and North Africa based in Cairo, Egypt.
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Supporting Governments During Covid-19
J-PAL LAC is leveraging its long-standing partnerships with governments in the region to provide policy advisory support and to share evidence to fight the short- and long-term challenges posed by the pandemic.
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J-PAL Africa Evaluating Social Programs Course, 2021
Held live over Zoom, this five-day training will equip participants with the resources and knowledge to engage with impact evaluations of social programs in Africa.
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Scaling up a Program to Boost Immunization Demand in Haryana: A Pilot Study
Researchers conducted surveys with registered caregivers of children in Haryana, India to understand the quality and reliability of data recorded by frontline health workers using the government’s m-health application, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife Online (ANMOL) and the extent of Covid-19-induced...
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Shifting social and gender norms for improved development outcomes: A recap from the Global Evidence for Egypt Spotlight Webinar
While Egypt has made some progress towards gender equality and girls’ and women's empowerment, traditional gender roles and power dynamics continue to persist. Egypt has one of the highest gender gaps in the world, ranking 134th out of 153 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender...
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January 2021 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's January newsletter recaps a recent webinar on state and local responses to climate change, highlights new research on how improved Covid-19 messaging can help address racial health disparities, and showcases a new research resources library.
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Olivia Bordeu
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Covid-19 Response at J-PAL Europe
J-PAL Europe is working with J-PAL affiliated researchers and implementing partners to understand and mitigate the impact of Covid-19 in the region.
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Alokik Mishra
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Mobile Money: Impacts, Challenges and Open Questions
With the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, J-PAL Africa is hosting a practitioner-focused webinar, to highlight the evidence on the impacts of mobile money and digital financial services on poverty, open policy research questions, and challenges that practitioners face in sub-Saharan...
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Ben Olken
Benjamin A. Olken is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics at MIT. His research focuses on the public sector in developing countries, including work on social safety nets, taxation, and governance.
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Generating evidence-based insights for good governance during and after Covid-19
How to achieve good governance—as measured by accountability, government effectiveness, and control of corruption—is a question that has been at the heart of J-PAL’s Governance Initiative (GI) since its inception in 2011. In response, GI funds rigorous experimental research projects tackling a...
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Ce am învățat din testarea riguroasă a politicilor sociale în Europa?
J-PAL este un centru de cercetare axat pe reducerea sărăciei ce are ca obiectiv promovarea politicilor publice bazate pe dovezi științifice. Constituit dintr-o rețea formată din 225 de profesori afiliați la universități din întreaga lume, J-PAL efectuează evaluări de impact randomizate pentru a...
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Cosa abbiamo imparato fino ad oggi grazie a valutazioni rigorose di impatto di politiche sociali in Europa
I ricercatori della rete di J-PAL hanno condotto più di 80 studi randomizzati di progetti e politiche sociali in 20 paesi europei, di cui 5 in Italia, in particolare nei campi dell’educazione e del mercato del lavoro. J-PAL Europe ha pubblicato un riassunto dei risultati principali di questa ricerca...