Eventos

El equipo de J-PAL está continuamente organizando distintos tipos de eventos, tales como conferencias, seminarios, webinars y cursos para académicos, miembros de instituciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales, entre otros. 

Upcoming Events

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Webinar

Webinar series: Preparing for graduate study abroad for African students

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Virtual
J-PAL Africa holds a webinar series each year for African students who would like to pursue graduate study in Economics, Public Policy, or related fields in North America or Europe. The webinars are spread throughout the year and aim to provide comprehensive information to African students on what...
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Conference

Evidencia y experiencias para fortalecer programas de Pago por Servicios Ambientales (PSA)

- (5-8pm EDT)
ITAM, Santa Teresa Campus, Sala Isoptica C, Mexico City
Este evento presencial en México reunirá a instituciones y especialistas para compartir evidencia científica, aprendizajes y enfoques innovadores que fortalezcan los programas de PSA. Además, destacará cómo las evaluaciones aleatorizadas (RCTs) pueden generar evidencia rigurosa para mejorar el...
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Webinar

Webinar on Advancing Research for an Effective and Fair Criminal Legal System

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Live via Zoom
This webinar will introduce IECP’s inaugural Request for Proposals (RFP), share guidance on the application process, and feature researchers whose work illustrates how racial equity can be embedded directly into research design.
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Conference

Evidence Matters Convening

- (1-6:15pm EST)
Seattle, Washington
J-PAL North America at MIT, the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities at the University of Notre Dame, and King County, Washington, invite you to a convening that brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers committed to advancing equitable community outcomes through the...

Past Events

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Workshop or Training

Evidence-Informed Policymaking in Germany and Beyond

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Bonn, Germany
This event will bring together German domestic policymakers, implementers, and actors of the German development cooperation to discuss and learn about evidence use and rigorous impact evaluation. Together we would like to work towards more evidence-informed programming and policymaking in Germany...
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Dissemination

The search for good jobs: Youth Job Search and Job Quality

- (10-11:30am EDT)
Live via Zoom
As part of the Morocco Employment Lab (MEL)’s research seminar series, Prof. Imran Rasul will present a recent study entitled “The search for good jobs: Evidence from a six-year field experiment in Uganda”. This study seeks to understand the origins of young people's job search behaviors in the...
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Workshop or Training

J-PAL/MIT Evaluating Social Programs Course, 2022

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Live via Zoom
Held live over Zoom, this five-day training will equip participants with the resources and knowledge to engage with impact evaluations of social programs. The interactive course provides an in-depth look at why and when randomized evaluations can be used to rigorously measure social impact, methods...
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Conference

Morocco Employment Lab’s Evidence Sharing Seminar: Using Evidence to Improve Youth Economic Inclusion in Morocco

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- (4:30-11:30am EDT)
Rabat, Morocco and via live stream
This seminar will focus on youth economic inclusion, including three panel discussions led by senior policymakers, academics, and staff from the Morocco Employment Lab.
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Webinar

NBER and MIT Roybal Centers Joint Virtual Meeting

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Virtual via Zoom
In partnership with the NBER Roybal Center, the MIT Roybal Center will host a virtual meeting featuring presentations of completed pilot projects and office hours with Center principal investigators.
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Webinar

Midiendo el empoderamiento: lecciones de una evaluación para fortalecer la agencia económica de las mujeres y cambiar las normas de género

- (10-11:15am EDT)
En vivo vía Zoom
Las normas de género imponen expectativas de comportamiento y roles que influyen en la participación de las mujeres en el mercado laboral. Aunque parecen a menudo inmodificables, existe evidencia de que estas normas pueden cambiar. ¿Estamos preparados para medir estos cambios?. Este 31 de mayo a las...
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Webinar

Gender Norms and Women's Work

- (10am-12:30pm EDT)
To add to ongoing discourse on gender norms and women’s work, this policy event brings together different stakeholders working to shift gender norms and attitudes on women’s work. These include policymakers, universities, think tanks, implementing organizations, and development agencies, among...
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Lecture Series

Youth economic inclusion: Improving Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information

- (11am-12:30pm EDT)
Live via Zoom
As part of the Morocco Employment Lab’s research seminar series, this webinar will present evidence on how information frictions affect both firms and jobseekers’ behavior and discuss how this could inform the design of better mechanisms to improve information on jobseekers’ skills in the labor...