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Diana Suarez
Diana Suárez is a Research and Training Manager at J-PAL LAC, where she works contributing to the development and curation of research resources, best practices, and knowledge management for the LAC office, monitoring the projects adherence to the research protocols, developing training proposals...
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Leveraging the digital revolution: Can governments utilize big data to help decision-making?
Using evidence to make policy decisions can be a challenge when the information one needs is not credible, easily accessible, or interpretable. However, this difficulty can be overcome with the use of a high-frequency monitoring system. As governments and organizations move towards more digitized...
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Craig McIntosh
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Abhilasha Purwar
Abhilasha is currently working on a project which seeks to design, implement and evaluate Pilot Emissions Trading Schemes (ETS) for particulate matter in 1000 industrial units in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. Her interests lie at the intersection of science and engineering...
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A.R. Selva Swetha
As Capacity Building Manager at CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia, Swetha, as part of the IDEA Initiative, manages training, resource development and advisory activities for various state governments, central agencies and other data providers, towards making their administrative data accessible and research...
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Catalog of Administrative Data Sets
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Preventing intimate partner violence by engaging men: Evidence from Unite for Better Life in Ethiopia
A growing body of evidence suggests that gender inequality, especially social norms that endorse violence against women, is one of the main drivers of IPV. What programs can effectively build more gender equitable attitudes and behaviors, and do these behaviors translate into reductions in violence...
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Diego Verdugo
Diego Verdugo joined J-PAL in January 2013 and is a Senior Research Manager. He is currently working on the evaluation of the program Chile Sano, which measures the impact of a dental treatment on labor market outcomes of economically vulnerable people.
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Price Incentives to Improve Coffee Quality in Uganda
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test whether providing traders “bonuses” for high-quality coffee affects the prices traders offer farmers for their coffee and whether this, in turn, affects farmers’ incentives to invest in the quality of their production.
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Announcing the AEA RCT Registry’s new metadata repository
In 2013, J-PAL began a collaboration with the American Economic Association to create the AEA’s RCT Registry. Now, users can browse registry metadata with ease using monthly data snapshots uploaded to the Harvard Dataverse by J-PAL. These snapshot datasets let users access registry metadata, cite to...
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Cally Ardington
Cally Ardington is a professor in the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She has extensive experience in the design, management, and micro-econometric analysis of social surveys.
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