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Massive public-health experiment sends vaccination rates soaring

The rate of vaccination against COVID-19 rose sharply in villages in Sierra Leone where health officials held mobile vaccination clinics.

Harvard study follows nonviolent Bexar County inmates who were given free bail

For more than a year, a local nonprofit has been asking certain inmates inside the Bexar County jail if they’d like to participate in a years-long study that gives them a 50-50 chance of getting bailed out of jail for free.

Illustrating India’s complex environmental crises

A CAST Visiting Artist project traces the history of cause and effect that have led India to its current crossroads.

Reflecting on COP28 — and humanity’s progress toward meeting global climate goals

MIT delegates share observations and insights from the largest-ever UN climate conference.

AI 'work-free society' may not be happier, says Banerjee of MIT

Can technological advances make people happier when income inequality and low growth are already growing problems in developed countries? Abhijit Banerjee, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019, says that public...

January 2024 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's January newsletter features a blog post on bias in administrative data, results from a food-as-medicine program, and a blog announcing J-PAL North America's involvement in an ed-tech learning community.

Malnutrition: Scaling digital behaviour change interventions

Behavioural interventions on digital platforms have the potential to improve child malnutrition at a large scale in rural India right now. While this may seem like an indirect or simplistic approach to solving a complex nutrition problem, research from Africa and South Asia suggests that behavioural...

How reforming India’s workfare programme raised private sector earnings

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is among the largest and most influential social programmes in the world, guaranteeing 100 days of paid work to 8% of the world’s population.