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Anshuman Shukla
Anshuman Shukla is a Senior Project Manager for J-PAL South Asia at IFMR in India. He supports the newly launched initiative on Creating Learning Opportunities for Public Officials (CLOP) in India.
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Beenu Rawat
Beenu Rawat is a Finance Manager at J-PAL South Asia, where she handles the financial and grant management of the office
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Jack Cavanagh
Jack Cavanagh is a Senior Research, Education, and Training Associate at J-PAL Global, where he works on research methods and transparency, including projects on research resources, data publication, and an RCT metadata catalogue.
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Camila Pastén
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Antoinette Schoar
Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an Undergraduate Degree from the University of Cologne, Germany. She is an Associate Editor of the...
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Offering Cash and In-Kind Transfers to Grow and Sustain Microenterprises in Sri Lanka
Researchers provided small one-time grants to microenterprises in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the additional capital on business profits two and five years later. They found that cash and in-kind grants increased business profits for male owners in the short and long term, but did not lead to an increase in business profits for female business owners.
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Jostin Kitmang
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Breaking the glass ceiling in economics and policy, one conversation at a time
Read our interview with Prerna Kundu and Prashansa Srivastava, Co-Founders of Women in Economics and Policy, and Research Associates at J-PAL South Asia.
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Responses to Economic and Security Risks During Covid-19 in Lagos, Nigeria
Researchers studied the economic, social, and security impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on informal market vendors in Lagos, Nigeria through a phone survey. Nearly half of respondents reported that their marketplaces were closed entirely, and only 1.5 percent of respondents reported that their...
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Register for the Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19 webinar
Register for the Covid Dialogues: Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19 webinar on June 8, 2021.
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Using Phone Surveys to Improve Public Service Delivery and Guide Crisis Response
In low- and middle-income countries, regular program monitoring for improving public service delivery and the beneficiary experience is often constrained by slow, indirect processes such as periodic government surveys as well as unrepresentative, sporadic data from government dashboards and...
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Covid Dialogues: Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19
This Covid Dialogues webinar will share policy-relevant evidence on online learning, parental engagement, and girls’ education to address education access, quality, and equity challenges resulting from and exacerbated by Covid-19.
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Leveraging behavioral insights to increase savings in low- and middle-income countries
This week, J-PAL published a new Policy Bulletin on the most effective approaches for helping individuals and families in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) build up their savings. The Bulletin reviews twelve randomized evaluations and finds that commitment savings products–voluntary...
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Jakob Svensson
Jakob Svensson is the Director and a Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University. His research interests include corruption, accountability in service delivery programs, and political economy.