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Foundations of ethical and high-quality data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic
There have been many innovations in data collection methods over the past few months to adapt to contactless research. Many research organizations, including J-PAL, have shifted to data collection through phone surveys, as field activities remain halted. As we support and strengthen these...
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Marking a milestone: Our most-read evaluations
Over the past seventeen years, J-PAL affiliated professors have collectively conducted more than 1,000 completed and ongoing randomized evaluations. This achievement reflects the tremendous commitment of our affiliated professors, implementing partners, and research staff, alongside the trust of...
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Bhavya Sinha
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Mrignaina Tikku
Mrignaina Tikku is a Senior Research Associate on the project Engendering Policing: Evaluating Reforms to Increase Women’s Access to Security & Justice (MPP-UV), in Madhya Pradesh.
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Meghna Yadav
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J-PAL Launches New Regional Research Center in Cairo at AUC to Help Improve Lives Across MENA Region
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), together with the American University in Cairo (AUC), Community Jameel, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has announced the launch of a new regional research center in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) focused on alleviating...
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Lars Vilhuber
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Evan Green-Lowe
Evan Green-Lowe joined J-PAL in 2010 as a policy intern to assist in the analysis of various interventions and help write evaluation summaries geared for use by policymakers.
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Focusing on the Foundations: Education in the time of COVID-19
T he COVID-19 pandemic has left an unprecedented 1 billion children out of school for substantial periods of time. This has significant implications for equity, with children from low-resource families most at risk of being left further behind. Now is a unique opportunity for governments, NGOs, and...
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Building research partnerships to create moves to opportunity
J-PAL affiliate and Director of Opportunity Insights Raj Chetty reflects on partnering with J-PAL North America to evaluate an intervention called Creating Moves to Opportunity, which aims to help lower-income families in the United States to move to higher-opportunity areas.
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Cristián Larroulet
Cristian Larroulet holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He joined J-PAL in 2010, as a master's student, to work on a project about the role of information in high school enrollment decisions. After some years working for J-PAL LAC...
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Nupur Ghuliani
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Cristián Ugarte
Cristián Ugarte holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from Catholic University of Chile and is currently studying a Masters degree in Economics at the same university. He joined J-PAL in 2010 to work in a project on information and parent's decision of high school enrollment.
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Pastoralism in the COVID-19 era
Pastoralism is a livestock production system that has been carried out for millennia in some of the world’s harshest environments, including the vast arid of East Africa. This post, written by Philemon Chelanga, Indira Tirumala, and CEGA affiliated professor Elizabeth Lyons, explains how the...
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Increasing accountability and reducing corruption through government audits
Government audits have often increased political accountability, reduced misuse of public resources, and improved compliance with laws and regulations. In lower- and middle-income countries, audits have been more effective when the government had a stronger capacity to enforce punishments, when...