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Search our database of policy briefcases, bulletins, and evidence reviews. Briefcases summarize the results and policy recommendations from one randomized evaluation, while bulletins synthesize the broader policy lessons emerging from multiple evaluations on the same topic. Evidence reviews summarize an existing academic literature review, like a handbook chapter or white paper, for a policy audience.

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HCDI Evidence Wrap-up

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outubro 28, 2024
This publication describes some of the randomized evaluations supported by J-PAL North America’s US Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) to date, as well as evaluations conducted by J-PAL affiliated researchers.

Evidências sobre políticas de mercado de trabalho e implicações para o Brasil: microcrédito

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setembro 13, 2024
O acesso limitado a financiamento é uma barreira significativa para pequenas e médias empresas, e programas de microcrédito visam ajudar empreendedores ao oferecer financiamento de baixo valor para promover o crescimento. Esta publicação, coautoria da JOI Brasil e do Banco Interamericano de...

Evidências sobre políticas de mercado de trabalho e implicações para o Brasil: Assistência à busca por emprego

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setembro 5, 2024
Barreiras como dificuldades de comunicação de habilidades, falta de informação e vieses comportamentais podem complicar o processo de busca por emprego. Esta publicação, coautoria da JOI Brasil e do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, examina as evidências sobre programas de assistência à busca...
Female students wearing headscarves are seated in an English classroom at Jambiani Secondary School in Jambiani, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Boosting Adolescent Girls' Agency Through Life Skills Training

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março 12, 2024
Historically, women’s ability to exercise choice-–such as when to have children or whether to engage in income generating activities—has been constrained and remains severely limited, especially in low and middle-income countries. Barriers to women’s agency limit their capacity to advocate for...
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Designing and Implementing Evidence Based Life Skills Training Programmes and Girls Clubs

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março 12, 2024
There is growing evidence that life skills programmes may serve as a particularly effective avenue for addressing internal constraints women face in exercising agency, by strengthening women’s “power within”—self-efficacy, aspirations or attitudes about gender.
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Measurement of Holistic Skills in RCTs: Review and Guidelines

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dezembro 1, 2023
J-PAL recently launched its Learning for All Initiative, which has a core focus on breadth of skills. There is much to learn about whether and how interventions can affect skills that extend beyond literacy and numeracy, including cognitive skills, social skills, emotional skills, creative skills...
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Going the Last Mile: Lifting ultra-poor households out of extreme poverty

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outubro 27, 2023
The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (known as JEEViKA), NGO Bandhan-Konnagar, and J-PAL South Asia launched the Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana: Ending Ultra Poverty at Scale, a playbook developed for government and civil society organizations working towards ending extreme poverty. The...
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The Spillover Effects of Health Care Interventions in the United States: Evidence Wrap-Up

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outubro 10, 2023
Health care policies and interventions are often designed with a specific population in mind. However, they can have effects that go beyond the specific target population. These effects are referred to as “spillover effects.” This publication showcases studies conducted by J-PAL affiliated...
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Cultivating Active Citizenship Skills Among Youth

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setembro 28, 2023
A civic education programme implemented through student-centred teaching methods cultivated students’ sense of altruism and tolerance towards others. The intervention also improved students’ academic achievement and school behaviour.