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IFII Blog Series: Advancing inclusive digital financial services to empower women in Indonesia
Financial services can give women more control over financial decisions, which can lead to empowerment and improved well-being. When designed properly, access to financial services may not only help women build resilience and take advantage of opportunities, but it can also help them set goals and...
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October 2021 South Asia Newsletter
In October 2021, J-PAL South Asia's quarterly newsletter focuses on how to get more people vaccinated and ways to combat urban diabetes.
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J-PAL Updates
October 2021 Newsletter
In the October 2021 Newsletter, we examine changes in philanthropic priorities during the pandemic, celebrate our second cohort of graduates from the joint J-PAL/MIT master's program, and highlight a new blog series for J-PAL Southeast Asia on empowering women through digital financial services.
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CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia’s Executive Education: Evaluating Social Programs 2024
Evaluating Social Programs (ESP) 2024 is a three-day in-person course that explores the use of monitoring and evaluation to drive sustainable social impact at scale.
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Seri Blog IFII: Pemberdayaan perempuan melalui layanan keuangan digital inklusif
Pemberdayaan perempuan merupakan salah satu tujuan penting layanan keuangan digital inklusif. Seringkali kebutuhan keuangan perempuan belum dapat dipenuhi oleh produk-produk keuangan yang ada, sehingga kendali mereka terhadap berbagai keputusan keuangan menjadi terbatas. Oleh karena itu, layanan dan...
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Affiliate Spotlight: Marcella Alsan on her recent MacArthur Fellowship award and researching racial disparities in health
Marcella Alsan, economist, physician, and Co-Chair of J-PAL’s US Health Care Delivery Initiative, was recently selected as a recipient of a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her work “investigating the role that legacies of discrimination and resulting mistrust play in perpetuating racial...
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Paloma Artigas San Carlos
Paloma del Pilar Artigas San Carlos is a Project Associate at J-PAL LAC, where she works on the project "School-Parent Communication with SMS" which aims assess whether the provision of school information to parents by SMS would improve the scholarly performance of children.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at J-PAL North America and Beyond
J-PAL North America is committed to testing strategies and developing resources to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion among their staff, network of researchers and partners, and underrepresented scholars in the economics field.
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Strengthening Indonesia’s branchless banking agent network: Challenges and lessons from evidence
Read this recap of J-PAL SEA's Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative's webinar on Banking the unbanked: The effects of agents’ financial incentives and transparency in increasing the take-up and usage of financial products.
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Bernardita Muñoz Zech
Bernardita Muñoz is a Research Manager at J-PAL LAC where she works on coordinating the activities of the impact evaluation of “Papás al Día. School-Parents Communication with SMS.” Prior to joining J-PAL LAC in 2014, she worked at the Economics Department of Universidad de Chile.
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Countering Discrimination: Combating Innate and Societal Biases
In this webinar, panelists will discuss the need for more evidence around effective programs to combat discriminatory practices (e.g. racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia etc.), showcasing an example of interdisciplinary, policy-relevant research focused on prejudice reduction.
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Affiliate Spotlight: Tavneet Suri on the importance of locally-grounded research
A weak internet connection did not stop J-PAL Africa Scientific Director Tavneet Suri from getting her point across in our interview: Good research is done with an ear to the ground and a connection to the community. Calling in from her home country of Kenya, Tavneet emphasized how important it is...