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Announcing the AEA RCT Registry’s new metadata repository
In 2013, J-PAL began a collaboration with the American Economic Association to create the AEA’s RCT Registry. Now, users can browse registry metadata with ease using monthly data snapshots uploaded to the Harvard Dataverse by J-PAL. These snapshot datasets let users access registry metadata, cite to...
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European Social Inclusion Initiative
Launched in 2019, J-PAL’s European Social Inclusion Initiative (ESII) aims to generate and share widely applicable lessons about promoting social inclusion in Europe through research, training and policy outreach.
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Innovation in Government Initiative Request for Proposals
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Overcoming barriers to women’s adoption of digital financial services in Indonesia
In Indonesia, various efforts, such as digital financial education programs, expansion of QR code utilization to different types of merchants, and onboarding women-owned businesses to e-commerce platforms, have been and continue to be implemented to increase women’s adoption of digital financial...
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The overtreatment challenge: Why are providers prescribing antimalarials to malaria-negative patients?
A critical challenge for developing country health systems is to craft policy that gives individuals with curable diseases like malaria and pneumonia access to potentially lifesaving medical care, while preventing patients from consuming unnecessary medical treatment or getting treated for the wrong...
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Promoting girls’ participation in schools: insights from academic research
What actions can countries take to implement or reinforce efforts to increase school participation for girls? Pascaline Dupas (Stanford; Co-Chair, J-PAL’s Health sector) presented evidence from randomized evaluations on interventions that have increased school participation in a recent webinar.
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Developing an ed-tech agenda in Latin America
J-PAL LAC and Proyecto Educar 2050 organized a regional conference on education technology and its impacts on student learning.
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Letter from the Global Executive Director: J-PAL's response to COVID-19
J-PAL Global Executive Director Iqbal Dhaliwal outlines the actions J-PAL is taking to slow the spread of COVID-19 and ensure the safety of our staff.
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J-PAL updates
April 2023 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's April newsletter highlights how evidence can be leveraged at the end of the public health emergency.
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North America Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience Initiative
J-PAL North America’s Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience Initiative aims to support the recovery of individuals and communities in the aftermath of Covid-19 by identifying and implementing effective policy responses to the pandemic.
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Applying Behavioral Insights to Improve Tax Enforcement in Poland
In partnership with the Polish Tax Office, researchers conducted a nation-wide randomized evaluation to test the impact of sending tax enforcement letters with behavioral messages on tax compliance among delinquent taxpayers. The results indicate that behavioral letters significantly improved tax compliance relative to the status quo letter, and sending letters by regular mail (the cheaper option) was just as effective as sending via registered mail.
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Evaluating an agricultural mobile marketplace at scale in Uganda
On Tuesday, November 9, Craig McIntosh (Professor of Economics at University of California, San Diego) and co-director of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI), shared evidence from one of the largest market information experiments ever conducted. Jenna Fahle, CEGA Agriculture...
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African Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Evans Osabuohien
In this spotlight, we speak with Dr. Evans Osabuohien, Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics and Development Studies at Covenant University in Nigeria. Evans’s primary research interests relate to international economics, institutional economics, agricultural economics, and...