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CareerTalk with J-PAL South Asia
J-PAL South Asia’s CareerTalk aims to engage with a diverse cohort of college and university students interested in learning more about the development sector in India and employment opportunities at J-PAL South Asia. This webinar will be conducted on 17 July 2021 at 3:00–4:00 pm IST.
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Affiliate Spotlight: Seema Jayachandran on deforestation, corruption, and the roots of gender inequality
Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University) discusses wide-ranging research in the developing world and insights gained into gender parity, economic growth, and pandemic impact in poor nations.
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Experimentation and Evaluation Put Forward as Key to Morocco's Development
On May 25, 2021, the chairman of Morocco’s Special Commission for the Development Model presented the report on the New Development Model to His Majesty King Mohammed VI. The mandate of the Commission was to analyze the Kingdom's current development path and to outline a new development model...
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Building research partnerships to address the opioid crisis in Minnesota
Adam Sacarny (Columbia University) and Weston Merrick from the Minnesota Management and Budget share insights on the process of launching a randomized evaluation of the state’s prescription monitoring program (PMP). The ongoing study seeks to evaluate the impact of sending informational letters on...
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Jiayi (Betty) Qian
Betty Qian is a Summer Policy and Communications Intern at J-PAL Global where she works to support various J-PAL initiatives.
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Juan Carlos Cisneros
Juan Carlos Cisneros is a Policy Intern at J-PAL Global where he works on the Environment, Energy, and Climate Change sector and supports the King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI).
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Adrien Rose
Adrien Rose is a Policy Intern at J-PAL Global where he works with the Environment, Energy and Climate Change sector supporting the King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI). He
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Foundations for student success: Focusing on functional literacy and numeracy
To support education systems to focus on functional literacy and numeracy, UNICEF is partnering with The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL at MIT), Pratham, and Delivery Associates.
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Study finds physicians are effective messengers of Covid-19 information regardless of recipients’ race or political beliefs
A new large-scale randomized evaluation has found that messages delivered by physicians increased knowledge about Covid-19 and use of preventative health measures, like mask-wearing and social distancing, regardless of recipients’ race or political beliefs. This research shows that information...
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Four key lessons for building scale-up partnerships
Scaling up programs that have strong evidence of effectiveness is a vital but often complicated step along the evidence-to-policy journey, and J-PAL has learned a lot about collaborating with policymakers to translate research into large-scale action. In this blog post, Iqbal Dhaliwal (Global...
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Victoire Fribourg
Victoire Fribourg is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where she supports the Labor Market sector and the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative.
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Yvette Ramirez
Yvette Ramirez is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Global, where she manages the Gender sector. In her role on the Policy and Communications team, she writes policy publications, supports the Gender and Economic Agency Initiative, and engages in fundraising efforts.
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Beatriz Velho
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July 2021 Newsletter
In the July 2021 newsletter, we highlight a new op-ed addressing how deeply unequal access to Covid-19 vaccines may be diminishing trust in high-income countries to meet other promises related to climate change.