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J-PAL Global Executive Education 2016, Cambridge MA
J-PAL Global is organizing an annual Executive Education course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.
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J-PAL Europe Executive Education Course 2016, Mannheim
J-PAL Europe is organizing a five-day course, in English, led by affiliated professors from J-PAL, that will teach participants how to measure the effects of poverty programs scientifically and help shape better policies through the use of randomized evaluations.
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J-PAL Southeast Asia Evaluating Social Programs 2016, Jakarta
This 2-day course on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one’s own evaluation.
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J-PAL Southeast Asia Evaluating Social Programs, 2016, Jakarta
In cooperation with the University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Economics and Business, J-PAL Southeast Asia is organizing a three-day course that will introduce participants to randomized evaluations and how this method can be used to measure the effects of social programs and help shape better...
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Measurement for Action
J-PAL hosted the second talk of its lecture series at MIT, D²P²: Data. Decisions. Public Policy. Dr. Rukmini Banerji (CEO of Pratham) discussed her work with the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) and how the massive citizen-led assessment of children’s learning has led to a national debate...
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The Science (and Pseudoscience) of Winning Elections
Just six days away from the final vote in a sensational election, J-PAL is excited to host Dr. Donald Green to dig in to what we know about how political campaigns mobilize and persuade voters. His talk will focus particularly on how randomized evaluations have transformed the way campaigns operate.
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Policy Insights in Environment, Energy, and Climate Change
J-PAL’s Environment, Energy, and Climate Change Sector focuses on energy access, pollution reduction, and climate change. Our policy insights below summarize lessons from randomized evaluations on topics such as household energy access and efficiency, building farmers' resilience to climate change...
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Ajay Desai
Ajay Desai is a Software Developer at IFMR where he assists the Data Analytics Manager on creating and managing guidelines for the data management practices of J-PAL SA. Prior to joining IFMR in 2014 he worked at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor for one and a...