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Evaluation
The Impact of Group-based Therapy and Cash Transfers on Adolescent Girls' Mental Health and Economic Outcomes in Uganda
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impacts of group-based therapy with and without a one-time lump sum cash transfers on the mental health and employment outcomes of adolescent girls in Uganda.
Policy Publication
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Will Technology Transform Education for the Better?
In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the transformative potential of technology in education. The hype around education technology is rapidly outpacing evaluation of ed tech programs. How do we ensure that these innovative tools are actually helping our students learn? And...
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Daniel Masterson
Evidence to Policy Case Study
Case study
Individualized tutoring to improve learning
Saga Education’s intensive math tutoring program has been shown to improve academic outcomes and has now reached 12,000 students facing barriers in the United States.
Event
Learning Together for Children’s Learning: An Interdisciplinary Convening
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is pleased to announce two in-person events to feature multidisciplinary education research and foster cross-disciplinary connections: a closed two-day convening at the Paris School of Economics (June 18–19) followed by a public one-day conference at...
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Amber Peterman
Blog
New tutoring resource: A learning path for evidence-based tutoring implementation
J-PAL North America and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) created the Implementing Evidence-Based Tutoring for High Impact learning path to give local education agencies and tutoring providers easily accessible information about effective program components and how to...
Evaluation
Priming Adverse Events and Reports of Depression in Nigeria
To better understand how to measure and report depression, researchers randomized the order of questions in a national survey to examine the effect of triggering memories of difficult events, such as conflicts, shocks, and death, on reported levels of depression across households in Nigeria. They found that having his/her painful memories triggered, respondents who experienced an adverse event were more likely to report symptoms of depression.
Resource
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When Science Met Arts To Celebrate 20 Years Of Fighting Poverty
To mark J-PAL’s 20th anniversary, J-PAL South Asia organized the "Shaping Policy, Transforming Lives" exhibition in Bikaner House, New Delhi. The exhibition celebrated the success of J-PAL South Asia’s partners in the government, academia, civil society, and philanthropic organizations in tackling...
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Joan Hamory
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Amira El-Shal
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Asad Islam
Asad Islam is a professor of economics at Monash University, as well as the director of the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES). His recent research focuses on social networks, schooling and health, microfinance, gender, technology adoption, and risk-sharing mechanisms of...
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Patricio Dalton
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Daan van Soest
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