Blog

News

Informations, idées et analyses proposées par des employés de J-PAL et des professeurs affiliés. Inscrivez-vous à notre newsletter pour recevoir des mises à jour mensuelles par e-mail. 

Celebrating a decade of the AEA RCT Registry

The AEA RCT Registry serves as a central repository for information on planned, ongoing, completed, or withdrawn randomized trials in the social sciences. We're celebrating it's tenth anniversary by using the wealth of data (updated every month in the AEA Registry Dataverse) from ten years of...
J-PAL staff (left-to-right) Jatnna Amador, Laina Sonterblum, and Cordelia Kwon sit at a table while J-PAL North America Co-Scientific Director Matt Notowidgdo stands at a podium next to a slide show that reads “Using inclusive and asset-based communication in research.”

Researching racial equity: Integrating inclusive and asset-based communication throughout the research cycle

In part five of J-PAL North America’s researching racial equity blog series, we recapitulate our workshop on inclusive and asset-based communication in research, recently delivered at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s (APPAM) 2023 annual conference.
Three people in front of white board, one writing

Researching racial equity: The value of centering lived experience in the research process

By
In part four of J-PAL North America’s researching racial equity blog series, we sit down with Anthony Barrows, Managing partner and founder of the Center for Behavioral Design and Social Justice, to understand how to center lived experiences throughout the research process and in impact evaluations...
Man and woman look at laptop

So, you got a null result. Now what?

While a null result is likely not what you were hoping for, and while null results can (unfortunately) be more difficult to publish, they can spur just as important insights and policy implications as significant results. However, to learn from a null result, it is necessary to understand the why...
ATAI Data Portal

Making every research step count: Introducing the ATAI Data Portal

By
Today, ATAI launched a new open data platform to bring together the best evidence from ATAI-funded research in a single portal, making it easily accessible to researchers and policymakers alike. The initiative aims to foster collaboration and evidence-informed decision-making in the agricultural...
Person looking at computer screen with "Health Care Evaluation Toolkit" landing page

Introducing the Health Care Evaluation Toolkit: Resources for randomized evaluations in health care

J-PAL North America released a new Health Care Evaluation Toolkit that provides guidance and advice for social scientists conducting randomized evaluations of health care delivery interventions, within health systems, or using health care data, leveraging case studies from the United States.
A group sits at tables while two people stand facing a white board.

Faciliter l’accès aux données administratives en éducation : un partenariat fructueux entre le programme IDEE et le Ministère de l’Education nationale et de la Jeunesse

By
Pour favoriser la recherche expérimentale en éducation, IDEE travaille en collaboration avec le Ministère de l'Education nationale et de la Jeunesse pour développer de nouveaux outils et ressources informatiques, en particulier, un catalogue accessible en ligne de données administratives en...
Rows of people in a classroom with laptops.

Setting up international research collaborations for success

International research collaborations—those composed of principal investigator (PI) teams based in different countries—are increasingly common and have the potential to strengthen the capacity of research teams and the quality of research projects. As with any research collaboration, successful...