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September 2022 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's September newsletter features our work on high-impact tutoring from all angles, including policy decisions informed by J-PAL evidence, a new interactive course on implementing high-impact tutoring, and reflections from a past high school tutor.

August 2022 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's August newsletter features the launch of two evaluation incubators and stories from previous evaluation incubator partners.

Raj Chetty on Economic Mobility

Raj Chetty of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Chetty's recent co-authored study in Nature where he finds that poor people in America who are only connected to other poor people do dramatically worse financially than poor people who are connected to a wider array of...

J-PAL North America launches two partnership opportunities to research social programs

In an op-ed for MIT News, J-PAL Policy Associate Mera Cronbaugh and Senior Policy Associate Laina Sonterblum discuss the launch of J-PAL North America's new evaluation incubators: the Housing Stability Evaluation Incubator and State and Local Evaluation Incubator.

July 2022 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's July newsletter features our Economics Transformation Project blog series and new research results on a STEM pipeline program and the Nurse-Family Partnership program.

When cash giving doesn’t work

Vox
J-PAL affiliated researchers Brian Jacob's and Julian Jamison's studies on the effects of unconditional cash transfers in the US are cited in an article by Vox seeking to explain why recent cash transfer research in the US tends to show insignificant results.

FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Launches National Effort to Support Student Success

As part of the launch of the National Effort to Support Student Success, the White House cited a study by J-PAL North America Executive Director Vincent Quan and J-PAL Co-Chair of the Education Initiative Phillip Oreopoulos on the benefits of high-quality tutoring programs on educational attainments...

June 2022 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's June 2022 newsletter features ongoing collaboration with the Puerto Rico Department of Education, replication data from the Health Care Hotpotting evaluation and lessons learned for sharing replication data, and a spotlight on former executive director Mary Ann Bates.