The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Publication
Reshaping Adolescents’ Gender Attitudes: Encouraging Students to Discuss Gender Equality in the Classroom
A series of interactive classroom discussions about gender equality over two and a half years increased students’ support for gender equality and led students to enact more gender-equitable behavior in the state of Haryana, India.
Policy Insight
Facilitating savings among smallholder farmers to smooth or increase consumption
Offering savings products to smallholder farmers did not transform agricultural investment or output in six studies in sub-Saharan Africa. In a few cases, savings products sometimes benefited farmers by providing a form of risk protection and by helping them smooth consumption over time.
Blog
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 toward making significant progress in the fight against poverty worldwide.
Publication
In the Business of Saving Lives
In Uganda, an incentivized community health promoter program increased health care access, knowledge, and health-promoting behaviors among households, leading to a 27 percent reduction in child mortality.
971 ongoing and completed randomized evaluations in 83 countries
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How might access to high-income markets help businesses in low- and middle-income countries grow? Read our latest p… https://t.co/aPQlphXN0u
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Can informing citizens of the government benefits that they’re eligible for help improve access to those benefits?… https://t.co/rA85Lk9WbZ
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A Gov’t of #Haryana delegation visited J-PAL this week to exchange an MOU to advance evidence-informed decision mak… https://t...
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Here's hoping it makes the NYT Vows section: check out the announcement about the new @poverty_action +...
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Today, J-PAL and IPA are excited to announce the creation of the new Datahub for Field Experiments in Economics and Public Policy . With...
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Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often struggle to find foreign markets to export their goods. As such, in recent decades, governments, nonprofits, and donors have increasingly invested resources towards market access initiatives to help solve this problem. These initiatives aim to improve livelihoods for SME workers and promote exports by matching firms with foreign buyers.
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In 2016, an estimated 560,000 lives were lost due to interpersonal and collective violence; some 100,000 of these were lost in battle. The recent Pathways for Peace report from the UN and the World Bank underscored the need to develop more innovative responses to address the changing nature of violent conflict, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
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Differences in the size and wealth of economies between countries have long been the subject of much debate and discussion. While there are many theories of the sources of these differences,...
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In this guest post, Darshak Shavani writes about how a commitment to evidence, and a connection by J-PAL North America, led to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center launching the first ever randomized evaluation of a major federal health insurance program in the United States.
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