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Policy Insights in Crime, Violence, and Conflict
J-PAL’s Crime, Violence, and Conflict sector focuses on promoting safe communities and designing effective policies to manage and reduce violence and conflict. The policy insights below summarize lessons from randomized evaluations on the impact of economic interventions to reduce intimate partner...
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Masyhur Hilmy
Masyhur is a Research Manager at J-PAL Southeast Asia where he manages several randomized evaluations on social protection.
Sector Policy Insights
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Policy Insights in Education
J-PAL’s Education sector focuses issues of access, quality, and equity in primary and post-primary education. Our policy insights below summarize general lessons from randomized evaluations on student participation and learning in developing countries, and transitions to college and charter schools...
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Catalyzing new partnerships for gender equality in South Asia
Program implementers, evaluators, and donors convened in New Delhi to formally launch J-PAL’s gender sector in South Asia and discuss the current context and future priorities for the sector.
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Join the TaRL Africa team!
We’re looking for passionate program and policy experts to join our team and help lead efforts to expand TaRL to reach up to three million primary school students in Africa over the next five years.
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We now have a Paris Agreement rulebook. Where do we go from here?
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2018 (COP24), parties agreed to a rulebook that lays out how governments will measure, report and verify emissions under the Paris Agreement. Now countries need to act—and know whether policies and programmes are meeting their climate goals...
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Announcing J-PAL’s new Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) Initiative
Around the world, vast amounts of data are now being digitally collected or stored, which creates tremendous opportunities to transform lives through better social policies. Using these data sets in creative and innovative ways to evaluate programs and therefore improve outcomes is a vital step...
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Affiliate spotlight: Will Dobbie on conducting randomized evaluations to reduce inequalities in the United States
Will Dobbie is a J-PAL affiliate and an assistant professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University. He is a recipient of a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship, awarded to “early-career scientists of outstanding promise” in recognition of “distinguished performance and a unique potential...
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Affiliate Spotlight: Paul Niehaus
Paul Niehaus is a co-founder and president of GiveDirectly, co-founder of fintech start-up Segovia, and professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. Named one of 100 leading global thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Paul represents a new generation of development...
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Measuring Women’s Agency, Empowerment, and Norms in Impact Evaluations: A webinar with Shagun Sabarwal
What does it mean for women to have agency? Can women’s empowerment be measured? How can we know if social norms have changed? Join us for a webinar with Shagun Sabarwal, Director of Policy, Training, and Communications at J-PAL South Asia, on strategies to measure gender outcomes—agency...
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Olawunmi Ola-Busari, J-PAL ’18, balances the science of research with the art of policymaking
Olawunmi joined J-PAL Africa right after graduating college and spent three years building the office’s presence in the region. Now a graduate student in the Georgetown School of Foreign Service's Global Human Development program, she reflects on her path to international development, the experience...
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Laura Abadia, J-PAL ’19, on her path from J-PAL Europe to the OECD
Laura joined J-PAL Europe after working in sub-Saharan Africa and spent nearly six years at J-PAL building the office’s presence in the region. Now working for the OECD Development Centre, she reflects on how her experiences have brought her to where she is today, and shares with us some of the...