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Samantha Carter, J-PAL ‘20, on bringing innovative ideas to life
As a former senior policy associate at J-PAL Global, Samantha Carter played a leading role in managing J-PAL’s government scale-up initiative and the finance sector within the policy team. Now a research and operations manager at Precision Development (PxD), she works to take innovative ideas out of...
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J-PAL updates
Hotspotting and police engagement to reduce crime and police violence in Latin America
How can we make cities safer? Unlike institutional systems like education or healthcare, which regularly collect data on activities and outcomes, crime can be more difficult to track or measure due to its concealed nature. Moreover, while crime is rampant in some countries, little is known about how...
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Initiative projects and documents
Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (JOI) African Scholars Opportunities
Policy insight
Designing information campaigns to increase adoption of healthy behaviors
Accurate information can help people determine which behaviors lead to improved health outcomes, but information alone is not necessarily sufficient to motivate adoption of these behaviors. When the primary barrier to the adoption of a healthy behavior is lack of awareness, information that is...
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Demitria Wack
Demitria Wack is a Senior Policy Associate supporting the Education sector at J-PAL Global.
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Nurturing the next generation of Indonesian development economists
J-PAL Southeast Asia is building a cadre of local researchers and policy practitioners in development economics and strengthening the use of rigorous evidence in policymaking.
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Better policies to support entrepreneurs and create more jobs: A new focus on adaptation and scale
J-PAL’s Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (JOI) is expanding its scope to test promising strategies to help meet the jobs challenge through entrepreneurship and firm growth.
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Affiliate Spotlight: Adam Osman
Adam Osman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Co-Scientific Director at J-PAL Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Adam’s work using randomized evaluations to test theories about improving the lives of the poor serves to fill the gap in...
Event
xSDG UnConference: Making global development inclusive
J-PAL South Asia is collaborating with Belongg, Dalberg and Breakthrough to host the inaugural edition of the xSDG UnConference on designing inclusive social programs and policies to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
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Radhiyan Pribadi
M. Radhiyan Pasopati Pribadi is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where he currently works on evaluating interventions that aim to develop governance capacity of village leaders in Indonesia.
Evaluation
The Impact of Mask Distribution and Promotion on Mask Uptake and Covid-19 in Bangladesh
Researchers partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and Bangladeshi policymakers to test various strategies to increase mask-wearing and assess the impact of community mask wearing on SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. They found that a four-part intervention tripled mask usage and increased physical distancing. Further, this increase in mask-wearing reduced symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. When surgical masks were employed, 1 in 3 symptomatic infections were avoided for individuals 60+ years old—the age group that faces the highest risk of death following infection. This was the first large-scale randomized evaluation to demonstrate the effectiveness of masks in a real-world setting.
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Strengthening immunization demand and delivery: Lessons from existing evidence
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to routine vaccination services around the world. In a new evidence note, the J-PAL Health sector team provides an overview of policy lessons stemming from economic research on improving immunization coverage.