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Costas Meghir
Costas Meghir is the Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics at Yale University. His interests include labor economics, household behavior, retirement and pensions, income distribution, consumption, demand analysis, and development economics. Since 2004, he has been Co-Director of the Economic...
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Leading evidence-based labor policies in Morocco
This first training event, led by the Morocco Employment Lab (MEL), gathered senior officials from key labor market institutions.
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Natalia Rigol
Natalia Rigol is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. She studies the design, targeting, and delivery of financial products to the world’s poorest people, with a particular focus on financial inclusion for women. Currently, Natalia is researching the interaction between financial...
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#DayoftheGirlChild: Preventing the surge in teenage pregnancies due to COVID-19
In this blog, we highlight key interventions that policymakers and practitioners may wish to consider to urgently reduce child marriages and teenage pregnancies in light of the pandemic.
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Aditya Balasubramanian
Aditya works on the Delhi Voters Project, which seeks to understand how information provision affects voting preferences in Delhi slums and middle-class areas.
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J-PAL updates
July 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL announces the launch of J-PAL Middle East and North Africa, its newest regional research center, and reaches a major milestone: over 1,000 evaluations across 84 countries.
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May 2020 Newsletter
Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken write about expanding social protection amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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10 tips for learner success in online courses
To help ease the transition to online learning, Quetzali Ramírez, a top-performing MicroMasters learner and teaching assistant (TA), and I compiled ten tips gathered from our collective experience as online learners and supporters of others’ online learning experiences.
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December 2019 Newsletter
J-PAL's December 2019 newsletter celebrates Nobel laureates, J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and longtime J-PAL affiliate Michael Kremer, welcomes twelve new affiliate professors, and discusses European Social Inclusion Initiative's first round of grant funding.
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January 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL's January 2020 newsletter looks back at J-PAL's accomplishments, including launching new initiatives, growing the online MicroMasters program, and J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and longtime affiliate Michael Kremer being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Cash and Microenterprise Support for the Ultra-Poor in Uganda
In partnership with the Association of Volunteers in International Service, researchers evaluated the impact of the Women’s Income Generating Support (WINGS) program, an initiative which provided low-income Ugandan individuals, mainly women, with financial grants, business skills training, and ongoing supervision on individuals’ economic outcomes. The WINGS program improved individuals’ earnings and access to nonfarm business opportunities in postwar Uganda.
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The Impact of Government Subsidies on Private Secondary School Performance in Uganda
Researchers partnered with the Ugandan government to evaluate the impact of a public private partnership (PPP) program with low-cost private secondary schools on absorbing large increases in secondary school enrollment in Uganda. The PPP program led to both greater private school enrollment and higher student performance, with improved performance potentially being linked to increased input availability and positive household-driven selection of PPP student participants.