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Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Bloom is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. He is also the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a fellow of the Centre for Economic...
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February 2020 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's February newsletter highlights J-PAL's Evaluating Social Programs course, recaps the Work of the Future Initiative's convening, and summarizes new evidence on the limits of outreach to increase take-up of the earned income tax credit.
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Evaluating Social Programs Webinar Series
Join us daily from 11am-12:30pm EDT for this free, week-long webinar training series on Evaluating Social Programs. Throughout the week, these webinars will provide an introduction to why and how randomized evaluations can be used to rigorously measure social impact.
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Donald Green
Donald P. Green is the John William Burgess Professor at Columbia University, having moved there in 2011 after 22 years at Yale University.
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J-PAL eNews December 2010
Chilean Ministry invites J-PAL to convene Commission on innovative social programs.
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November J-PAL eNews
New policy briefcase: Exposing corrupt politicians; new paper on J-PAL's cost-effectiveness methods; J-PAL collaborates with South African government on labor market research.
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Gujarat adopts reforms after impact study shows they reduce pollution
Environmental authorities in Gujarat, India, reform their environmental auditing system based on findings from a large-scale randomized evaluation conducted in partnership with J-PAL affiliates from Harvard, MIT, the University of Chicago, and Yale. The new guidelines require environmental auditors...
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New Government Partnership Initiative expands use of antipoverty policies that work
Created thanks to a generous grant by Community Jameel, GPI will expand work with the biggest players in social and development policy—governments—to design, evaluate, and scale up programs that aim to reduce poverty. "Many governments are eager to innovate and test new approaches to fighting...
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eNews - September 2015
White House supports use of behavioral science insights in policymaking | Researchers discuss field experiments in labor economics and social policies at Paris conference | Featured Professor: Lisa Cameron | J-PAL Africa Executive Education: January 18-22, 2016
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Anti-poverty strategy offers sustained benefit for world’s ultra-poor, says new study in Science
A new six-country study shows a comprehensive approach for the ultra-poor, the approximately one billion people who live on less than $1.25 a day, boosted livelihoods, income, and health. Published in Science, the research tested the effectiveness of an approach known as the “Graduation model” in...
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Alan Gerber
Alan Gerber is Sterling Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Professor of Economics and of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University where he teaches courses on experimental methods, statistics, and American politics.
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MIT’s J-PAL North America launches state and local innovation initiative
“The new J-PAL initiative is a fantastic opportunity for governments who want to better understand the impact of their programs,” said Linda Gibbs, Principal at Bloomberg Associates and former New York City Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services. Learn more about J-PAL North America's State and...
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eNews - November 2015
This month we hosted an event in Ghana where experts discussed evidence on voter information and engagement programs, and we welcome new Executive Directors at J-PAL North America and Southeast Asia and four new affiliated professors.