Evidencia en acción

La evidencia de las evaluaciones aleatorizadas está cambiando la forma en que entendemos y abordamos los problemas relacionados con la pobreza. Los formuladores de políticas, profesionistas y fundaciones de todo el mundo están utilizando cada vez más estos aprendizajes en las políticas y programas sociales. Más de 600 millones de personas han sido alcanzadas por programas que se escalaron después de ser evaluados por investigadores afiliados a J-PAL. Muchos más se han beneficiado de las diversas y amplias formas en que la evidencia puede informar las políticas que se describen a continuación.

Pathways to Policy Change

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Adaptando y escalando un programa

Programas originalmente evaluados en un contexto han sido adaptados y escalados en otros contextos.

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Institucionalizando el uso de la evidencia

Muchas organizaciones, incluyendo gobiernos e importantes organizaciones no-gubernamentales, han institucionalizado procesos para realizar evaluar innovaciones de forma rigurosa y han incorporado el uso de evidencia en el proceso de toma de decisiones.

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Reduciendo o rediseñando un programa ya evaluado

Innovar, pilotear, reevaluar: nuestros socios han reducido, rediseñado o decidido no continuar con programas que fueron evaluados como no efectivos.

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Escalando un piloto ya evaluado

Innovar, pilotear, escalar: replicando y escalando un piloto exitoso a contextos similares.

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Cambiando el pensamiento global

El conocimiento generado por evaluaciones aleatorizadas ha moldeado de manera fundamental nuestro entendimiento sobre un gran número de políticas sociales.

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A federal office to bolster evidence-based policymaking

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.

Un laboratorio de innovación gubernamental para mejorar la educación

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.

Artificial intelligence to strengthen high school students’ writing skills

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.

Communicating Covid-19 messages at scale via social media

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.

Community-based targeting to combat Covid-19-induced poverty

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.

Diseñando un programa de protección social durante el Covid-19

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.

Fund flow reform for social program delivery

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

Giving directly to support poor households

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 125,000 households in rural Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda since 2013.

Individualized tutoring to improve learning

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.

Información y fiscalización para la reducir la sobrepesca

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.

Información y mediación para mejorar los Tribunales Laborales

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

Institutionalizing a culture of evidence-informed policymaking in Tamil Nadu

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.

Interactive curriculum to reshape gender norms

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.

Limits of technological solutions to provider monitoring

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.

Mobile conditional cash transfers to improve routine childhood immunization

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.

Normalizing mask usage to combat Covid-19

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.

Parental engagement to improve children's schooling

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

Tecnología basada en telefonía celular para la entrega de información agrícola

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.

Promoting housing choice to improve economic mobility

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

Providing school quality information to improve housing mobility 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.

Simplified reminders to increase take-up of tax credits

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.

Strengthening third-party audits to reduce pollution

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

Targeted information to improve social assistance

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

Targeting the ultra-poor to improve livelihoods

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.

Tutoring to accelerate learning

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.  

Efectos no intencionados de currículos anónimos

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...

Using rigorous impact evaluation to help people find jobs

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.