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November 2024 Global Monthly Newsletter

In the November 2024 newsletter celebrate the Nobel Prize in Economics, learn about training civil servants on impact evaluations in Côte d'Ivoire, and read how credible skills signals can improve employment and earnings for job seekers.

Cash Incentives Boost Insurance Enrollment but Fail to Secure Long-Term Retention in Thailand

Devdiscourse
A study on Thailand’s social insurance program found that cash incentives significantly boosted enrollment among informal workers, but retention was low, as many valued the immediate cash benefit over long-term insurance.

The Inter-American Development Bank and J-PAL LAC Launch Collaborative Visiting Program to Foster Evidence-Based Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Latin America and the Caribbean (J-PAL LAC) have officially launched a new Visiting Researcher Program, marking a new phase in the strategic collaboration between the two entities.

What Happens When an AI Assistant Helps the Tutor, Instead of the Student

EducationWeek
An AI-powered tutoring assistant increased human tutors’ capacity to help students through math problems and improved students’ performance in math, according to a Stanford University study.

How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum

Nature
Why we must treat decarbonization policies as an experiment and put in place measures now to evaluate what works best.

Octubre 2024 Boletín Trimestral de J-PAL LAC

Este año, J-PAL Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC) celebra quince años utilizando evidencia para informar políticas y aliviar la pobreza en la región. Celebremos juntos y descubra las últimas novedades en investigaciones relevantes para políticas públicas, iniciativas, cursos, eventos, recursos y más.

October 2024 North America Monthly Newsletter

J-PAL North America's October newsletter features an updated version of our Health Care Delivery Initiative Evidence Wrap-Up, a new video on our work with housing choice vouchers, and a blog on positionality statements in economics research.

Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation Partners With J-PAL South Asia on Clean Water Access for Millions in India Through Innovative, Scientifically-Proven Solutions

This collaboration, aims to ensure safe drinking water for all rural households by 2030, leveraging J-PAL’s evidence-based approach to tackle India’s growing water challenges.