Events
North America, Workshop or Training
J-PAL Global Executive Education 2017
Hosted by: J-PAL Global
12 June 2017 to 16 June 2017
| Cambridge, MA This five-day course provides participants a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and a pragmatic step-by-step guidance on conducting one’s own evaluation.
South Asia, Workshop or Training
J-PAL/ CLEAR South Asia Executive Education 2017
3 July 2017 to 7 July 2017
| New Delhi, India J-PAL/ CLEAR South Asia is organising its annual Executive Education course. This five-day course provides participants a thorough understanding of impact evaluations and a pragmatic step-by-step guidance on conducting one’s own evaluation. It focuses on evaluation methods and techniques and cover topics including M&E theory and practices, Evaluation design and Sampling Techniques.
Africa, Workshop or Training
IPA/J-PAL Africa Executive Education Course, 2017
Hosted by: J-PAL Africa
10 July 2017 to 14 July 2017
| Nairobi, Kenya This five-day program on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one’s own evaluation.The course is designed for managers and researchers from NGOs, governments, international development organizations, and foundations from around the world, as well as trained economists looking to retool.
North America, Dissemination
The China Shock: Economic and Political Consequences of China’s Rise for the United States
18 May 2017 | MIT's campus in Cambridge, MA and webcast
China’s rise as an economic power has significantly shifted the patterns of world trade and challenged existing empirical research about how labor markets react to trade shocks.
South Asia, Workshop or Training
Measurement and Survey Design Course 2017
3 May 2017 to 5 May 2017
| New Delhi, India J-PAL South Asia through the CLEAR Initiative is organising a 3-day open enrolment course on Measurement and Survey Design. The three-day course on Measurement and Survey Design is intended for researchers, M&E professionals and other individuals interested in gaining essential skills for collecting high quality primary data.
North America, Dissemination
Demonetizing India: what, why, and where now
13 April 2017 | MIT Building 4, Room 237 and webcast
On November 8, 2016, the Government of India announced that all 500 and 1,000 rupee notes would no longer be accepted as legal tender. This decision, known as “demonetization,” is one of the most unusual policy reforms carried out in recent times. In this installment of the Data. Decisions. Public Policy.
North America, Dissemination
Research and Innovation: Ed-Tech, Personalized Learning & the Digital Divide
Hosted by: J-PAL North America
31 March 2017 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142
Technology is developing at a breathtaking pace, and it’s fundamentally changing the way teachers, policymakers, and researchers think about education. On March 31st.
Africa, Dissemination
Experimenting for a Better Future: Drawing Policy Lessons from Randomised Evaluations
Hosted by: The Wits School of Governance
13 March 2017 | Classroom F, Mwalimu House Wits School of Governance, 2 St David’s Place, Parktown
The policymaking landscape is flooded with ‘great ideas’ for tackling social policy problems, competing for financing and buy-in, despite often limited evidence of their effectiveness. As with clinical trials for medicine, randomised evaluations of development policies can provide a scientific and unbiased way to measure these policies’ impacts across multiple dimensions on people’s lives.
North America, Workshop or Training
J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative – Year 1 Participant Conference
Hosted by: J-PAL North America
12 January 2017 to 13 January 2017
| Cambridge, MA and live stream State and local government leaders, leading scholars, and social service providers gathered in Cambridge on January 12th and 13th to share their first-hand experiences creating and using rigorous evidence to address key challenges related to poverty.
North America, Workshop or Training
State and Local Innovation Initiative Webinar
Hosted by: J-PAL North America
8 December 2016 | Webinar