Evidencia en acción

J-PAL staff and affiliates contributed to the creation of the Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES) to improve the capacity of US federal agencies to build and use rigorous evidence and continue to partner with OES to aid this mission.

Con apoyo de J-PAL e Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), el Ministerio de Educación de Perú, creó una unidad dedicada a identificar, testear y escalar intervenciones de bajo costo para mejorar resultados educacionales.

The state government of Espírito Santo, Brazil applied research findings to scale an AI education technology that gives public school students feedback on their writing, reaching more than 100,000 high school seniors to date.

Researchers applied insights from earlier Covid-19 messaging research to launch a large-scale Facebook messaging campaign and corresponding evaluation reaching more than 35 million people.

Using community targeting methods to distribute cash transfers during Covid-19 has provided relief to over eight million recipients previously unenrolled in any social protection program in Indonesia.

Profesores afiliados a J-PAL apoyaron al gobierno de Chile a diseñar un programa de transferencia de efectivo durante la pandemia de Covid-19, que alcanzó de más de 3 millones de hogares.

A market for air pollution was scaled to reach over 15 million people in Gujarat, India.

Central and state governments in India have adopted a financial reform to enhance public service delivery informed by evidence.

GiveDirectly has expanded its cash transfer program, which was found in a randomized evaluation to have improved economic and psychological well-being in Kenya, to reach over 1.6 million people in Bangladesh, DRC, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and the United States.

Saga Education’s intensive math tutoring program has been shown to improve academic outcomes and has now reached 12,000 students facing barriers in the United States.

Evidencia de una evaluación aleatorizada y un análisis de costo-efectividad llevaron al gobierno chileno a expandir una campaña de información a consumidores para proteger a las especies marinas en riesgo.

El gobierno de México utilizó información de una evaluación aleatorizada para orientar una ley laboral nacional.

A long-standing partnership between the Government of Tamil Nadu and J-PAL in India has helped institutionalize the use of evidence in decision making and build a culture of evidence-informed policymaking.

In India, the state governments of Punjab and Odisha are scaling up an evidence-based gender transformative education program in government schools with the NGO Breakthrough, reaching 4 million students across both states by 2026.

Based on evidence that biometric monitoring technology did not increase doctors' attendance at primary health centers, the government of Karnataka decided to end the program, saving taxpayers millions of dollars.

An evidence-based family planning campaign delivered via mass media was scaled up across Burkina Faso, reaching 80 percent of the country’s population, and adapted in seven countries in southern and eastern Africa.

The Health Department of the government of Sindh, Pakistan used rigorous evidence from a randomized evaluation to support the scale-up of an incentive program to increase routine childhood immunization coverage and timeliness.

A community-level mask distribution and promotion program tripled mask usage in Bangladesh and is now being scaled up in multiple countries, reaching almost 14 million people in South Asia so far.

The French Ministry of Education has expanded a parental involvement program to all public schools in the country on a voluntary basis.

Precision Agriculture for Development se basó en los resultados de dos evaluaciones aleatorizadas para crear y difundir un nuevo modelo de extensión agrícola basado en teléfonos celulares.

Evidence from a flagship randomized evaluation in the United States prompted legislative and administrative changes to expand housing choice for low-income families.

After research found that providing families with information on school quality increased Housing Choice Voucher recipients’ moves to neighborhoods with higher-rated schools, an affordable housing website expanded the provision of school quality information to all of its 60,000 daily site users.

Following an evaluation in California testing variations of reminder letters to low-income households to increase take-up of tax credits, the US tax agency scaled up nationally the use of reminders that simply and prominently displayed potential benefits.

To better support women experiencing gender-based violence, the Mexico City Women's Committee (SEMUJERES) partnered with J-PAL affiliated researchers and J-PAL LAC to pilot new interventions, improve a cash transfer program, and embed evidence-informed practices into policy design and delivery.

Evidence from a randomized evaluation informed the scale-up of a pollution audit policy in Gujarat, India.

Government scale-up improves access to targeted social programs for 65.67 million people.

A multifaceted livelihood program has reached and improved the standard of living for more than three million households across 15 countries following randomized evaluations by J-PAL affiliates.

Research has shown that high-dosage tutoring helps students catch up. Governments and agencies across the United States are implementing tutoring programs to accelerate learning in the wake of Covid-19.  

El gobierno francés descartó una política que hubiera requerido que las empresas tomaran decisiones de reclutamiento basadas en currículos anónimos, luego de que la evidencia mostrara que un programa piloto voluntario en realidad perjudicaba las oportunidades laborales de las y los postulantes...

The French Public Employment Service has incorporated rigorous evidence from randomized evaluations into its decision-making processes to improve employment outcomes of job seekers throughout the country.

Digital Green leveraged findings from randomized evaluations to refine and scale its video-based agricultural extension model, reaching more than 7.2 million small-scale farmers in India and around the world.