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Iqbal Dhaliwal
Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal is the Global Executive Director of J-PAL since January 2018. He works with the Board of Directors to develop the organization’s strategic vision, and with the leadership of the seven regional offices to coordinate J-PAL’s worldwide research, policy outreach, capacity building...
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Sarah Eichmeyer
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Shashwat Singh
Evaluation
Leveling the Playing Field for High School Choice: A Field Experiment of Informational Interventions in the United States
Researchers evaluated the impact of several informational interventions with different modes of delivery and customization levels on high school choice outcomes among middle school students in New York City. All interventions made students less likely to rank a low graduation rate high school as their first choice and less likely to apply to any low graduation rate schools
Evaluation
Contesting Criminal Gang Governance in Medellin: The Impacts of Intensive Municipal Governance and Community Organization on Gang Control and Governing of Neighborhoods
In partnership with the City of Medellín, researchers randomly introduced a program that intensified government outreach to gang-controlled neighborhoods. The study found no evidence that the city’s intervention reduced gang rule.
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Robert Blair
Initiative
Innovation for MSME Development Initiative
The Innovation for MSME Development Initiative (IMDI) aims to support evidence-based policymaking in the MSME sector. IMDI achieves this through generating policy-relevant research and sharing knowledge that can help government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector identify...
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Initiative projects and documents
Innovation for MSME Development Initiative Call for Partner Collaboration
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Arya Gaduh
Arya Gaduh is an associate professor of economics at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His published research revolves around the empirical microeconomics of development, with particular focuses on human/social capital and urban economics.
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Md Amzad Hossain
Initiative Resource
Initiative projects and documents
Innovation for MSME Development Initiative Request for Proposals
Blog
Lesson #2 | What Not-to-do: Wisdom from Years of Trials (and Errors)
In the second part of this series, Shobhini Murkerji dives into her second lesson learned: Don’t trade for short gains—play the long game.
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Lesson #1 | What not-to-do: Wisdom from years of trials (and errors)
In this three-part series, J-PAL South Asia Executive Director Shobhini Mukerji reflects on the lessons learnt from these experiences as she builds her What-Not-Do-List to realise J-PAL’s goal of a poverty-free world.
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Sarah Coughlin
Sarah Coughlin is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Global. In this role, she supports the Agriculture Sector's Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative (DAISI), as well as writes policy publications, conducts policy outreach for evidence dissemination, and helps cultivate new research...
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Philip Oreopoulos
Philip Oreopoulos is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, at Berkeley and his M.A. from the University of British Columbia.