J-PAL Asia del Sur | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

J-PAL South Asia, based at the Institute for Financial Management and Research in India, leads J-PAL’s work in the South Asia region. J-PAL South Asia conducts randomised evaluations, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking, and helps partners scale up effective programmes.

We have a growing number of partnerships in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In 2011, we were selected to host the South Asia Center for CLEAR, a global initiative coordinated by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group. Under this initiative, we host a knowledge sharing roundtable series and equip practitioners with the expertise to carry out rigorous evaluations through training courses, advisory services, and joint research projects.

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Existen 197 evaluaciones aleatorizadas, finalizadas o en curso en Sur de Asia.

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COVIDialogues: Helping children catch up after schools reopen

J-PAL South Asia is excited to present COVIDialogues, a webinar series in which leading J-PAL-affiliated researchers respond with evidence to COVID-19’s most critical policy questions. The first COVIDialogue, which features Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, J...

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Evaluating Social Programs Online Course 2020

CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia is offering an online training course on Evaluating Social Programs. Modeled after our in-person course, Executive Education: Evaluating Social Programs, this five-day virtual training program is designed to provide development practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and...

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The NEP’s Focus on Early Childhood Education Can Help Children Live up to Their Potential

New research, which shows early childhood education programs are most impactful and cost-effective, should be incorporated to ensure effectiveness.

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Webinar Series: Strengthening Safety Nets and Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Join this webinar series hosted by J-PAL South Asia and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, between July 29, 2020 and August 26, 2020. In this series, J-PAL affiliated professors will present results from research funded by the Cash Transfers for Child Health (CaTCH) Initiative at J-PAL South Asia...

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We're excited to announce the launch of our early recruitment round for General Data Research Associate and General Field Research Associate! These positions are particularly interesting for recent college graduates who are strongly considering graduate study in economics. In addition to learning more about the field of high-level economics research, selected candidates will gain excellent training in analytical techniques, advanced programming in Stata and/or R, and exposure to recently-collected field data. This experience with J-PAL affiliates and projects has proven to be an excellent preparation for applications to top graduate schools. Apply by October 11: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/page/recruitment-timeline

September 10th
Registration now open for online course Measuring Health Outcomes in Field Surveys! Enroll in this free, self-paced course to learn how to conduct rigorous global health research projects in the field. Through lectures from public health researcher Vandana Sharma featuring her work in India and Kenya, combined with case studies and exercises to provide practical insights on study design and measurement, participants will learn the fundamentals of field-based health research. Learn more and register here: https://www.edx.org/course/measuring-health-outcomes-in-field-surveys

August 26th
The COVID-19 pandemic has left an unprecedented 1.6 billion children out of school and is likely to worsen the global learning crisis. As students head back to primary schools around the world, assessing students' learning levels upon return to class and teaching to that level, as well as focusing on foundational skills, can help to close the learning gap. Now is a moment to ensure that every child returns to school and acquires the foundational skills needed to realize their full potential: https://j-p.al/FocusingOnFoundations

August 17th
Randomized evaluations break down large development problems into specific questions. These questions individually and collectively generate lessons and insights that can help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and lessen its economic effects, writes J-PAL's Political Economy and Governance sector on the UN Public Administration Network blog: publicadministration.un.org/en/home/blog

August 11th
In Mexico, overburdened labor courts can result in long delays for dismissed workers seeking severance pay and workers typically lack the necessary information to make informed decisions about their cases. Our latest case study describes the partnership between J-PAL affiliated professors and the Mexico City Labor Court and subsequent research that informed the Government of Mexico’s May 2019 national labor law reform, which requires workers to meet with a conciliator before filing a severance case, among other provisions. Read the case study: https://j-p.al/mclc

August 6th

Foundations of ethical and high-quality data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic

There have been many innovations in data collection methods over the past few months to adapt to contactless research. Many research organizations, including J-PAL, have shifted to data collection...

2 months 1 week ago

Voices from the field: Enumerator spotlight

J-PAL affiliates have now conducted over 1,000 randomized evaluations in 84 countries, scaling up a Nobel Prize-winning approach to poverty alleviation research. To celebrate this milestone, we’re...

6 months 1 week ago

Affiliate Spotlight: Karthik Muralidharan

Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego and also serves as a J-PAL Board member and co-chair of the Education sector. A...

6 months 1 week ago

Measuring social attitudes and norms in impact evaluations: Examples from India

Social norms also often persist despite economic growth, and can negatively impact development outcomes. Evaluating the impact of interventions targeting social norms can be useful to understand how...

6 months 1 week ago

Tanya Sethi, J-PAL ’14, is tackling the big questions in aid and policy

In the next installment of our Alumni Spotlight series, we speak with Tanya Sethi, a former senior policy associate at J-PAL South Asia. Tanya joined J-PAL South Asia’s policy team after receiving a...

8 months 1 week ago