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This post highlights how rigorous impact evaluations can contribute to this broader reflection, including by examining interventions from neighboring countries outside the region facing similar challenges, such as migrant and refugee inclusion in Bulgaria and Turkey.

Adam Osman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Co-Scientific Director at J-PAL Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Adam’s work using randomized evaluations to test theories about improving the lives of the poor serves to fill the gap in...

To support education systems to focus on functional literacy and numeracy, UNICEF is partnering with The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL at MIT), Pratham, and Delivery Associates.

Tras el cambio a la educación en línea en las escuelas italianas en marzo de 2020, las afiliadas a J-PAL Michela Carlana (Universidad de Harvard) y Eliana La Ferrara (Universidad de Bocconi) lanzaron rápidamente un programa de tutoría en línea para ayudar a estudiantes de entornos desfavorecidos que...

En esta publicación de blog, los miembros de una alianza de investigación y prácticas basadas en evidencia en Puerto Rico reflexionan sobre sus estrategias para mejorar el aprovechamiento académico de los estudiantes y perseverar durante la pandemia Covid-19.

When a body of academic literature points to an effective new approach to generate meaningful learning gains for pupils, practitioners take notice. But this may not be the complete story. Timothy Sullivan, Director of Learning Innovation at education provider NewGlobe, shares insights from recent...

With an abundance of important and sometimes surprising findings from studies of socioeconomic interventions in recent decades, it is clear that development in the absence of evidence-based policymaking is a fool's errand. The small details matter as much as—and sometimes more than—the economic big...

Los investigadores afiliados a la red de J-PAL han conducido más de ochenta evaluaciones aleatorizadas de programas y políticas sociales, algunas de estas aún en curso, en veinte países de Europa, con un enfoque particular en los ámbitos educativo y laboral.