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Market Access: Connecting Firms and Entrepreneurs to Markets to Spur Business and Job Growth
Improved access to markets has often helped small firms in low- and middle-income countries grow by boosting firm revenues and profits. These interventions have been effective because they have led to new sales, helped firms connect with new types of buyers, and increased information sharing and...
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Olga Stoddard
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Jens Ludwig
Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.
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Karen Macours
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Rocco Macchiavello
Rocco Macchiavello is a professor of management at the London School of Economics.
Evaluation
Sequencing Two Early Childhood Interventions Back-to-back in India
Researchers evaluated the impact of immediately following up an early childhood development intervention for one-to-three-year-old children with a second intervention for three-to-six-year-olds. The early and late interventions each increased IQ and school readiness for children, although there was not enough evidence to determine whether offering both programs was more effective than offering one.
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Olivier Sterck
Research Paper
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Teaching Teachers To Use Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Mastery learning - the process by which students must demonstrate proficiency with a single topic before moving on - is well recognized as one of the most effective ways to learn, yet many teachers struggle or remain unsure about how to implement it into a classroom setting. This study evaluates a...
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Invited Researchers
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Martina Björkman Nyqvist
Initiative
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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Initiative projects and documents
HCDI Request for Proposals
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US State and Local Innovation Initiative
The J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative supports US state and local leaders in using randomized evaluations to generate new and widely applicable lessons about which programs work, which work best, and why.
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Initiative projects and documents
State and Local Innovation Request for Proposals
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Daniel Björkegren
Daniel Björkegren is an assistant professor of economics at Brown University. He uses new sources of data to study the process of economic development, and his research interests include industrial organization, information technology, and methods for digital data.