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The Evidence Effect

Summer jobs, better futures

Paid summer jobs programs level the playing field for young people from low-income communities, raising summer employment rates and income and reducing involvement with the criminal legal system.
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The Evidence Effect

Encouraging government innovation through policy labs

Evidence-informed policy labs in governments help agencies pilot, test, and scale effective solutions for priority issues while also strengthening data and evidence use capacity.
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Researcher Spotlight: Harini Kannan on partnering with government to scale evidence-informed programs across India

In this episode of the Researcher Spotlight Series, host Sambhav Choudhury speaks with Harini Kannan, research scientist at J-PAL South Asia. Harini shares her journey from being inspired by budget speeches as a child to pursuing a career in development economics.
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ASPIRE Our Work Scaling Impact MP Police

Evidence shows that police reform—providing gender sensitization training to officers and introducing dedicated help desks for women at police stations—can shift police attitudes, making them more responsive to women’s security needs.
Four panelists seated on stage during Charcha 2022, with a large screen behind them displaying the ASPIRE logo and the text “Hosted by J-PAL South Asia.”
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ASPIRE at Charcha 2022

At Charcha 2022, J-PAL South Asia’s ASPIRE team partnered with the Veddis Foundation to organize three high-impact sessions, marking ASPIRE’s first public introduction. Anchored in the event's themes of livelihoods and entrepreneurship, the sessions explored strategies to strengthen government...
launching the Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana Playbook, Going the Last Mile: Lifting ultra-poor households out of extreme poverty in Patna, Bihar.
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Going the Last Mile: Lifting Ultra-Poor Households Out of Extreme Poverty

The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (JEEViKA), in collaboration with Bandhan-Konnagar and J-PAL South Asia, hosted the launch of a new playbook capturing five years of learnings from Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY)—the world’s first government-led scale-up of the Graduation Approach. The...
Exclusive roundtable with MoRD, J-PAL South Asia
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Reimagining Poverty Alleviation in India: An Expert Dialogue With Abhijit Banerjee

On July 11, 2024, J-PAL South Asia hosted an exclusive roundtable in New Delhi with Nobel Laureate and J-PAL Co-Founder Professor Abhijit Banerjee, bringing together senior leaders from government, philanthropy, and civil society to reimagine how India can tackle extreme poverty through scalable...
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ASPIRE Events

Events Page for the ASPIRE microsite
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Rakean Radya Al Barra

Rakean is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where he currently works on projects related to social protection for poverty reduction and is also assisting the urban transportation project.
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Ketki Girish Moghe

Ketki Moghe is a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, currently working on the Remote Tutoring: Ganita Ganaka project in Bengaluru, India.
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Learn New Skills this Fall with Online DEDP MicroMasters Courses

Join the course team for a live webinar to explore the Data, Economics, and Design of Policy MicroMasters program. Learn how this flexible, online graduate-level program—taught by MIT faculty—can help you build practical skills in data analysis, economics, and policy design.
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Deborah Bizarria

Deborah Bizarria is a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL.
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Insights from the field: Exciting new work from aspiring researchers supported by the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative

In this blog, Karin Mason, former Agriculture Program Intern at CEGA, highlights three ATAI-funded projects led by graduate students Steven Brownstone (UCSD), Piyush Gandhi (UCSC), and Iacopo Bianchi (SU).
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Maithili Sharma

Maithili Sharma is a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, where she contributes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) project in Surat. This initiative, in collaboration with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board and EPIC-India, is pioneering a market-based trading system for particulate matter...