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Julia Chabrier
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Michael Greenstone
Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. The focus of his research is on estimating the costs and benefits of environmental quality.
Research resource
Using administrative data for randomized evaluations
Administrative data is information collected, used, and stored primarily for administrative (i.e., operational), rather than research, purposes. These data can be an excellent source of information for use in research and impact evaluation. This document provides practical guidance on how to obtain...
Blog
Growth is not enough
With an abundance of important and sometimes surprising findings from studies of socioeconomic interventions in recent decades, it is clear that development in the absence of evidence-based policymaking is a fool's errand. The small details matter as much as—and sometimes more than—the economic big...
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Gabriela Jorquera
Gabriela Jorquera is a Survey Associate at J-PAL where she works on designing and implementing the pilot phase of a project that encourages savings. Prior to joining J-PAL in 2014, she worked at Fiscalía Nacional Económica. Gabriela holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Universidad de Chile.
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Aarathi Ajay Thomas
Aarathi Thomas is the HR Manager at J-PAL South Asia where she is primarily responsible for planning, designing and strengthening key HR activities and processes with a focus on staff development.
Event
Evaluating Social Programs IRC - Jordan Webinar Series
Join us each week from 3:00-4:30pm EEST (8:00-9:30am EDT) for this webinar training series on Evaluating Social Programs. Over the course of four weeks, these webinars will provide an introduction to why and how randomized evaluations can be used to rigorously measure social impact. The sessions...
Evaluation
Safe Cities: Improving the Citizen-Police Interface in Pakistan
Researchers partnered with the Punjab Safe Cities Authority to evaluate how to improve citizen’s access to and experience with police services.
Policy insight
Designing financial services and social protection programs to enhance women’s economic empowerment
Providing women in low- and middle-income countries with financial resources or financial services did not consistently lead to economic empowerment if women were unable to maintain control over the use of funds within their households. Financial inclusion and social protection programs should...
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Marc Gurgand
Blog
Letter from the Global Executive Director: J-PAL's response to COVID-19
J-PAL Global Executive Director Iqbal Dhaliwal outlines the actions J-PAL is taking to slow the spread of COVID-19 and ensure the safety of our staff.
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Aditya Rayala
Aditya Rayala is a Project Manager at J-PAL where he works on leading and managing multi-million dollar large scale impact evaluations with a multitude of stakeholders/partners engaged on a project. These include: academics, policymakers, government functionaries, implementing partner NGOs, private...
Evaluation
Providing Job Search Information to Improve Job Seekers' Employment and Earnings in Germany
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing recently unemployed individuals informational brochures about job search strategies that motivated an active search on their labor market outcomes. Providing informational brochures improved the employment and earnings of job seekers who exhibited an increased risk of long-term unemployment but had no measurable effects on the general population.
Research resource
Increasing response rates of mail surveys and mailings
Drawing on evidence and examples from literature on mail experiments and mail surveys, this resource suggests strategies for increasing responses to mail surveys and mailings targeted at a fixed pool of respondents in a randomized evaluation. We do not address tradeoffs between mailings versus other...
Evaluation
Providing Life Skills Training and Mentoring To Reduce School Dropout Among Girls in India
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of life skills training and mentoring on dropout rates and non-cognitive skills among girls in India. Their evidence suggests that the intervention is successful in developing stronger life skills including increased agency, more equitable gender norms, and stronger socio-emotional support.