Health
J-PAL’s Health sector aims to encourage health-promoting behaviors and improve the delivery of health care services, as well as to better understand the impact of health care on reducing poverty.
The Urban Services Initiative seeks to identify and evaluate innovative methods designed to improve the health and welfare of the urban poor in Africa and Asia.
The U.S. Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) encourages randomized evaluations of strategies to make health care delivery in the United States more efficient and more effective.
Publication
When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming
This paper reviews well-identified research on mass school-based deworming interventions in a variety of contexts, including Kenya, Uganda, and the southern United States. The existing evidence...
Publication
Using Randomized Evaluations to Improve the Efficiency of U.S. Health Care Delivery
In this review paper, J-PAL North America Scientific Director Amy Finkelstein (MIT) and Sarah Taubman (J-PAL, MIT) suggest ways to enhance the feasibility and impact of conducting randomized...
Publication
Responding to Risk: HIV Prevention and Male Circumcision
In rural Malawi, providing information about voluntary medical male circumcision and HIV transmission risk reduced risky sexual behavior among uncircumcised men, but did not increase take-up of...
Scale-Up
Chlorine dispensers at community sources provide safe water in Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda
Chlorine dispensers installed at community water sources are a low-cost technology used to treat water for consumption.
Evaluation
The Impact of Cognitive Stimulation and Nutritional Supplements on Early Childhood Development in Colombia
Researchers evaluated two early childhood development interventions at scale that trained mothers to provide their children aged 1–2 with psychosocial stimulation, micronutrients, or both....
affiliate
Jessica Cohen
Jessica Cohen is Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research interests include evaluation of maternal and child health programs and policies in sub-...
Lesson
Pricing Preventive Health Products
Charging even very small user fees sharply limits access to preventive health care. Though charging small fees is promoted for many reasons, several experiments in different countries found very...
Publication
After the Transfers Stop
Cash transfers directed to female caregivers in Nicaragua led to gains in child-development outcomes that persisted beyond the duration of the program.
Sector Chairs
Joseph Doyle
Co-Chair
Pascaline Dupas
Co-Chair
Seema Jayachandran
Co-Chair
