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Half of Indonesia's workers stopped working in April as a result of Covid-19 pandemic: Online survey

A survey conducted by J-PAL Southeast Asia shows that about half of Indonesia's workers stopped working in April due to COVID-19.

Communiqué : les cofondateurs de J-PAL Abhijit Banerjee et Esther Duflo lauréats du prix Nobel d’économie

Abhijit Banerjee et Esther Duflo, cofondateurs de J-PAL, Laboratoire d’Action contre la Pauvreté, ainsi que Michael Kremer, affilié de longue date à J-PAL, ont reçu conjointement le prix de la Banque de Suède en sciences économique en mémoire d’Alfred Nobel. Ce prix leur a été décerné « pour leur...

The Myth of Welfare Dependency

Recent research by affiliated researcher Rema Hanna suggests that the longer low-income families receive stable and predictable support, the better they and their children do.

Given an out, people still fall back into debt

Research conducted by J-PAL affiliates finds that keeping people out of debt traps isn’t as simple as paying off their loans.

For food-aid recipients, information is power

Research by Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Ben Olken, and Sudarno Sumarto finds that distributing a simple card explaining a government aid program leads to poor villagers in Indonesia receiving more of the subsidized rice they are entitled to.

The Power of Religion