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Launching the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative African Scholars Program
J-PAL’s Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (JOI) is excited to launch its African Scholars program beginning in the Fall 2021 request for proposal round, which will offer research funding to African scholars (individuals who have completed their PhD in Economics or a related field who are based at an...
Evaluation
Providing information on wood heating to decrease indoor air pollution in France
Researchers evaluated the impact of general and personalized information regarding the relationship between wood burning and indoor pollution on households’ knowledge of pollution and their pollution mitigation efforts. Both general and personalized information increased households’ awareness of pollution, but only personalized information improved households’ measured air quality.
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Alumni Voices: Reimagining how innovation funders measure and value gender impacts
Rachna Nag Chowdhuri ‘13 (former research manager at J-PAL South Asia) discusses her work at the Global Innovation Fund to reimagine how funders measure and value impact on gender equality outcomes.
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Navigating Indonesia’s post-pandemic era: Addressing opportunity, inequality, and growth
J-PAL SEA recently hosted a webinar aimed at providing insights into the Government of Indonesia’s policy directions and learnings from global evidence on challenges faced in different sectors. Read the key takeaways from the discussion.
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Danica Swiggart
Danica Swiggart is a Policy and Communications Intern at J-PAL North America. She supports the Homelessness and Housing Stability team as well as communications strategy and content development across J-PAL North America’s initiatives and policy sectors.
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Kevin Dunne
Kevin Dunne is a Policy and Research Co-op at J-PAL North America, where he supports evaluations in all stages of the research lifecycle.
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Juliette Seban, J-PAL ’12, on driving forward development innovation at France’s FID
As a former research manager at J-PAL Europe, Juliette Seban managed several randomized evaluations while pursuing a PhD in development economics. Juliette is now the executive director of France’s new Fund for Innovation in Development (FID). She reflects on her PhD experience, her work at J-PAL...
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Tara Marwah
Tara Marwah is a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL Europe, where she promotes evidence-informed policy in Environment, Energy, and Climate Change.
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Sendy Jasmine Karunia Hadi
Sendy Jasmine Karunia Hadi is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia.
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Prince Muraguri
Prince Muraguri is a Research and Learning Intern at TaRL Africa. His work at TaRL Africa will focus on assessing the TaRL methodology, based on key learnings from the TaRL experience in Zambia, to guide how to design and implement the TaRL innovation in other African countries.
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Jamie Simonson
Jamie Simonson is a Policy Associate at J-PAL North America, where he primarily supports work in the education sector to develop and disseminate rigorous evidence on policies that impact students experiencing poverty.
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Beyond causality: Additional benefits of RCTs for improving health care delivery
J-PAL affiliates Marcella Alsan and Amy Finkelstein highlight four key benefits of randomized evaluations that are useful for addressing pressing health policy questions, drawing from their recent Milbank Quarterly article.
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Alex Chen
Alex Chen is a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where he works on the Political Economy and Governance sector.