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February 2024 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's February newsletter features upcoming opportunities for state and local governments through the LEVER initiative, an interview with J-PAL affiliated researcher Greg Duncan, and a blog post about regression to the mean and impact evaluation.

What is a firm again? The fluidity of firm boundaries in developing country firms

New papers emphasize examining empirically how market frictions, risk and volatility, and other features of developing markets affect how firms use capital, labor, and managerial inputs, and may make it hard to say what the size of a firm is.

February 2024 Newsletter

Our February 2024 newsletter features the launch of the Humanitarian Protection Initiative, insights from Davos, and a new training partnership in Côte d'Ivoire.

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.