The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Blog
Announcing J-PAL’s Policy Insights
What have we learned from randomized evaluations that policymakers, practitioners, and funders can use to improve social programs? J-PAL’s library of short briefs called Policy Insights highlight lessons emerging across multiple studies and the mechanisms that help explain the results.
Event
J-PAL Executive Education: Evaluating Social Programs
J-PAL South Asia is offering a five-day course on Evaluating Social Programs in New Delhi, India from July 16 to 20, 2018. The course will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training on how to conduct an evaluation. Learn more and apply by May 27.
Blog
Expanding access to higher education for refugees
Starting in the summer of 2018, ReACT Hub, an MIT initiative that designs and deploys new learning opportunities for displaced populations, will sponsor a cohort of refugees to join the MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy, providing selected learners with access to scholarships for the five courses, remote work with paid internships, and in-person skill-building workshops.
Evaluation
Do government audits reduce corruption?
Billions of dollars in government funds go missing each year due to corruption, but there is limited consensus on how best to tackle this global challenge. Researchers leveraged data from Brazil’s long-standing anticorruption program, which holds public lotteries to randomly select municipalities for audit. These government audits, aimed at uncovering the misuse of public resources, reduced corruption by promoting both electoral and judicial accountability.
908 ongoing and completed randomized evaluations in 79 countries
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What are some of the best ways to help unemployed #youth find jobs? Read our Policy Insight: https://t.co/6vfMwGLMco
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- Want to be a champion for impact evaluation in your organization? There's still time to apply for our upcoming one-week executive education course on Evaluating Social Programs in New Delhi, July 16-20! Learn more at https://j-p.al/2wmNW5k. 1 day 6 hours ago.
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- Where we live, what job we have, and other social factors can affect our own health. The four finalists of J-PAL North America's latest innovation competition are working to provide cutting-edge health care that addresses the holistic components of health and well-being. Meet our finalists: j-p.al/2Go4hXl. 6 days 3 hours ago.
- We launched a new resource on our website: Short policy insights that summarize what we're learning from impact evaluations. What do you think? Check it out at https://j-p.al/2ryVlsz. 1 week 33 min ago.
- We've just launched our expanded library of Policy Insights, short briefs on a range of topics across J-PAL’s 9 sectors that highlight lessons emerging across randomized evaluations. Check them out! j-p.al/2ryVlsz 1 week 4 days ago.
“It is no longer up for debate the critical impact that social determinants of health have on chronic disease, health outcomes, health care utilization, and costs.” “[And] no one sector or...
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Randomized evaluations can generate important insights about human behavior and institutions in addition to measuring the impacts of specific programs and policies. The knowledge generated across...
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The MicroMasters team at J-PAL recently...
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William Evans is a professor of economics and chair of the Economics Department at the University of Notre Dame. He is a co-founder of the Wilson Sheehan...
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Four researchers recently joined J-PAL’s academic network: David Deming at Harvard University, Stefan Dercon at University of Oxford, Namrata Kala at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Patrizio Piraino at the University of Cape Town. Their varied research interests include technologies that help people adapt to environmental change, the determinants of socioeconomic disadvantage, and how to finance responses to natural disasters.
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