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Initiative
Innovation in Government Initiative
J-PAL’s Innovation in Government Initiative (IGI) funds technical assistance to governments to adapt, pilot, and scale evidence-informed innovations with a strong potential to improve the lives of millions of people living in poverty.
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Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action Initiative
J-PAL’s Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action Initiative (IDEA) aims to increase the use of administrative data by governments, non-profits, and private firms for evidence-informed decision-making.
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Latin America Skills for Youth Program
The Skills for Youth Program (SYP) seeks to identify and rigorously evaluate innovative solutions to improve youth employment in Latin America. Specifically, one of it goals is to address the gap between youth skills and labor market demand.
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North America Social Policy Research Initiative
J-PAL North America's Social Policy Research Initiative (SPRI), formerly known as the General Research Initiative, supports randomized impact evaluations of innovative social programs and policies that can provide insights for learning which policies work best and why.
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Post-Primary Education Initiative
J-PAL’s Post-Primary Education (PPE) Initiative funds randomized evaluations that develop and test innovative solutions for improving access, quality, equity, and relevance of post-primary education in low- and middle-income countries.
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Urban Services Initiative
J-PAL’s Urban Services Initiative (USI) seeks to identify and rigorously evaluate innovative methods designed to improve the welfare of the urban poor in Africa and Asia.
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US Health Care Delivery Initiative
J-PAL North America’s US Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) supports randomized evaluations of strategies that aim to make health care delivery in the United States more efficient, effective, and equitable.
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North America Worker Prosperity Initiative
The J-PAL North America Worker Prosperity Initiative aims to build an evidence-based playbook of strategies to increase opportunities for workers, reduce the economic barriers and social challenges in labor markets, and ensure that all workers share in the prosperity generated by technological...
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US State and Local Innovation Initiative
The J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative supports US state and local leaders in using randomized evaluations to generate new and widely applicable lessons about which programs work, which work best, and why.
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José Vila-Belda Montalt
Event
[Canceled] Covid Dialogues: Strengthening Covid-19 Prevention – From Handwashing to Vaccine Uptake
J-PAL South Asia’s next Covid Dialogue webinar will delve into how governments can effectively communicate Covid-19 prevention behaviors. Speakers will also share lessons to inform Covid-19 vaccine uptake in India, drawing on rigorous research and implementation experience in increasing routine...
Blog
Caitlin Tulloch, J-PAL ‘13, on innovation in cost-effectiveness analyses and building effective policy partnerships
Caitlin Tulloch joined J-PAL Global in 2009, where she played a central role in building the infrastructure for our policy efforts, establishing our approach to cost-effectiveness analysis, and building partnerships with policymakers. Now the associate director of Best Use of Resources at the...
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Luc Behaghel
Luc Behaghel is a Chaired Professor at the Paris School of Economics, Researcher and Director of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), IZA Research fellow, co-director of CEPREMAP's Labor program, and a CREST affiliate. His research interests go from labor market and education...
Evaluation
Combining In-School and Out-of-School Programs to Improve Learning in India
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of the combination of an in-school learning program with an out-of-school learning program on primary school math and reading levels. The combination of the two programs led to a significant increase in children's test scores in both math and language.
Sector Policy Insights
Policy insight sector page
Policy Insights in Agriculture
J-PAL’s Agriculture sector focuses on improving agricultural systems in developing countries. Our policy insights below summarize general lessons from randomized evaluations on providing credit and information to smallholder farmers and protecting them from risk.