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J-PAL’s MENA Scholars Fellowship

The MENA Scholars Fellowship creates a pathway for MENA region-based researchers to build skills and experience to design and conduct randomized evaluations of poverty reduction and social development policies and programs.
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Update

New J-PAL Initiative To Apply the Scientific Method To Improve Science Funding and Policy

Cambridge, MA—The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT today announced the new Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI), designed to catalyze scientific research on the scientific process. Its purpose is to produce rigorous, quantitative evidence from randomized evaluations on the most...
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Emanuele Colonnelli

Emanuele Colonnelli is a Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Evaluation

The Effect of Matching on Worker Skills versus Preferences on Firm-Worker Matches in South Africa

Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to improve the quality of job matches in South Africa. They matched applicants to entry-level vacancies using different types of information: workers’ preferences for job types; communication and socio-emotional skills; or grades and work experience.
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Blog

Resources for measuring precise and accurate outcomes in randomized evaluations

The repository is a collection of resources that introduce the measurement issues, tools, and innovations in a specific topic or question type. It is a companion piece to our Introduction to measurement and indicators and Survey design pages, compiling resources that discuss and provide guidance on...
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Update

September 2022 Newsletter

The September 2022 J-PAL Newsletter celebrated the five-year anniversary of the Data, Economics, and Development Policy MicroMasters program, and featured a blog on mitigating learning loss and upcoming events.
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Event

Achieving Gender Equity in Education by 2030: Lessons from the Evidence

In this virtual panel event, we will gather experts and practitioners who use evidence to design girl-focused programmes to share their lessons on what we know, what we still need to learn, and how we can move forward on gender equity.
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Laura Boudreau

Laura Boudreau is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Division at Columbia Business School.
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Blog

Can digital IDs transform service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa? Reflections from Tavneet Suri

Digital IDs have the potential to transform the delivery of social protection programs and other government services in sub-Saharan Africa through better targeting and reduced leakages. In this podcast, Tavneet Suri, professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management and co-chair of J...
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Evaluation

The Effect of Bureaucrat Performance Scorecards on Service Delivery and Bribes in Bangladesh

Researchers evaluated the impact of performance scorecards on the speed of delivery and the payment of bribes. Results show that the intervention increased on-time service delivery, but did not decrease bribe payments on average; bribes among high-performers increased.
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Aliya Chikte

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Deepa Janakiraman

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Kimberly Massa

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Register for Emerging Challenges in the Environment Landscape: Addressing Climate Change, Sustainability, and Poverty

Registration is now closed.
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Swetha Teli