The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
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Launching a practical guide to measuring women's and girls’ empowerment
J-PAL’s newest research resource, A Practical Guide to Measuring Women's and Girls’ Empowerment in Impact Evaluations, gathers insights from the experiences of J-PAL affiliated researchers around the world and offers practical tips for how to measure women's and girls’ empowerment in impact evaluations.
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Reducing Pregnancy Among Adolescents
Across a range of programs, interventions that successfully changed the calculus of costs and benefits of unprotected sexual activity and childbirth delayed pregnancy among adolescents. Some programs directly altered costs and benefits while others shifted perceptions of them.
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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.
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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.
912 ongoing and completed randomized evaluations in 80 countries
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A new way to measure women’s and girls’ empowerment in impact evaluations: https://t.co/A2eF408L3p
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Join us in Washington, DC next Wednesday, July 25 at @CGDev for a discussion of best practices in measuring...
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Who should collect survey data on #women's...
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- Interested in helping communicate results of impact evaluations to policymakers and the public? Join our team as a Communications Fellow in Cambridge, MA. Learn more and apply at https://j-p.al/commu8a8c6. Please share! 6 days 1 hour ago.
- How can you accurately measure women's empowerment? Should you rely on internationally standardized indicators, or locally tailored ones? Check out our newest research resource, a Practical Guide to Measuring Women's and Girls' Empowerment, for advice on this question & much more: j-p.al/guide7b964. 1 week 1 hour ago.
- Looking to build your skills in quantitative analysis and impact evaluation? Join us in Sao Paulo, Brazil August 13-16 for our Advanced Course in Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Methods for Impact Evaluation. The course will be taught in English. Seats are limited - enroll now! http://j-p.al/experi433e 1 week 3 days ago.
- Interested in joining our team of education innovators? We're hiring a Research, Education, and Training Associate at MIT in Cambridge, MA - learn more and apply at http://j-p.al/resea15f93. Please share! 1 week 4 days ago.
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This post was first published as an op-ed in Nexo Jornal...
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As part of the formative research that my research team and I (Rachel) conducted for a randomized...
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Adam Osman is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-Scientific Director of J-PAL’s Middle East and North Africa initiative. He has been a J-PAL affiliate since 2016. How did you become interested in development economics? I actually didn't know much about the field until after I got into graduate school. My exposure to it beforehand had been minimal and mostly from the older economic growth literature. For as long as I could remember I always had an interest in understanding why the poor were poor and what could be done to help them, but I thought this was one of those things people thought about but didn't actually study.
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“Trust and communication lay the foundation for a good working relationship,” shared Aaron Truchil of Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers...
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This post first appeared as commentary in Education Week . In April, the newest National...
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