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Working at J-PAL Africa
J-PAL Africa is a growing office with a fun, diverse and inclusive team. We have offices in both Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Research For Impact Fellowship 2024
J-PAL/CLEAR South Asia's Research for Impact Fellowship 2024 is a fellowship designed to enhance the capacity of PhD students in India in conducting impact evaluations.
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FAQs: J-PAL/CLEAR South Asia's Research for Impact Fellowship 2024
J-PAL/CLEAR South Asia's Research for Impact Fellowship 2024 is a fellowship designed to enhance the capacity of PhD students in India in conducting impact evaluations.
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Evidence to Policy Resources
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Our Work
At J-PAL North America, we work across a number of program areas to better understand which anti-poverty programs and policies work and why.
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About J-PAL Europe
J-PAL Europe, based at the Paris School of Economics, leads J-PAL’s work in Europe. J-PAL Europe conducts randomised evaluations, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking, and helps partners scale up effective programmes.
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Charter schools and student learning
In the United States, the estimated impacts of charter schools have varied widely. In Massachusetts, students who won lotteries for charter schools located in urban areas often did substantially better than students who lost; while students who won lotteries for charter schools in nonurban areas...
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Reducing costs to increase school participation
Programs that reduce the costs of education increase student enrollment and attendance. However, there is considerable variation in the cost effectiveness of different programs.
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Credit's limited impact on smallholder farm profitability
Increasing access to traditional microcredit has had limited impacts on smallholder farmers’ profitability in randomized evaluations in developing countries. Demand for new offers of credit was low, ranging from 17 to 33 percent, and even when farmers used traditional credit products to invest in...
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Increasing college access by making the application process easier
Relatively low-cost programs to simplify the college application process and support students through this transition can increase college enrollment and persistence in the United States and Canada. Personalized assistance, timely reminders, and fee waivers were key components of effective programs.
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Improving women’s representation in politics through gender quotas
Gender quotas for women in local government bodies can improve women’s representation in politics, increase provision of public services, and improve perceptions of women as leaders.
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Increasing student enrollment and attendance: impacts by gender
Reducing the costs and increasing the perceived benefits of education increase student participation for both boys and girls, and successful programs tend to help the gender with the lowest initial attendance most.
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Anna Schickele
Anna Schickele is a Policy Manager at J-PAL LAC in Santiago, Chile, where her work focuses on promoting the scale-up of successful programs and tracking J-PAL’s policy influence in the region.
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Reducing energy and water use through information and social comparisons
Providing people with information about their energy or water use compared to their neighbors and tips about how to conserve consistently reduced consumption by small amounts in many contexts.