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Evaluation
Returns to Secondary Schooling in Ghana
In this ongoing study, researchers are evaluating the effect of secondary school scholarships on educational attainment and cognitive skills in the short run, and on life outcomes in the longer run, from employment and health outcomes to civic participation and attitudes.
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Christopher Woodruff
Initiative
Displaced Livelihoods Initiative (DLI)
The IKEA Foundation is supporting the J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to generate and share new evidence on the impacts of livelihoods programs for displaced populations and host communities.
Evaluation
Creating Incentives to Decrease Water Waste in Zambia
Researchers partnered with a water company in Zambia to evaluate whether improved information and incentives can help households manage their water usage. They found that targeting incentives to higher household water consumers might be an effective way to reduce water consumption.
Evaluation
Disseminating Flood Warnings to Increase Disaster Preparedness in India
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing flood early warnings to rural households through smartphone alerts and community volunteers on their flood preparedness and responsiveness, as well as post-flood health and economic outcomes.
Event
Ecole d’été 2024: Méthodologies du Développement
Dans le cadre de la Chaire «Méthodologies du Développement» d’Abhijit Banerjee et Esther Duflo, une école d’été pour chercheurs et porteurs de projets africains sera organisée du 1 au 4 juillet 2024 à Rabat, sur le campus de l’Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P).
Person
Patricio Dalton
Initiative
Learning for All Initiative
Initiative Resource
Initiative projects and documents
Learning for All Initiative Request for Proposals
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Ying Gao
Person
Tithee Mukhopadhyay
Tithee Mukhopadhyay is the Deputy Executive Director for J-PAL South Asia.
Event
Economics of Decarbonization Working Group Inaugural Convening
J-PAL North America's Environment, Energy, and Climate Change (EECC) team is launching a series of researcher convenings with the goal of coordinating the efforts of researchers to develop an evidence base (experimental and non-experimental) that will inform carbon mitigation efforts in the United...
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