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Lauren Roode
Lauren is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Africa where she works with affiliates, policymakers and practitioners to further the J-PAL agenda of using evidence to inform policy.
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Thomas Ferreira
Thomas Ferreira is a Senior Data Associate at J-PAL Africa working on the Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) Initiative.
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Faith Masekesa
Faith holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies of Japan.
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Benjamin Roth
Benjamin Roth is the Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on understanding and relaxing the constraints to small-scale entrepreneurship in the developing world and how investors should behave when they have...
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J-PAL Updates
August 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL and King Philanthropies launch $25 million King Climate Action Initiative and more in J-PAL's August newsletter.
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Global Evidence for Egypt Spotlight Webinar on Social Assistance
Please join us for the upcoming Global Evidence for Egypt spotlight webinar, “What does global evidence tell us about social assistance response to large external shocks in Egypt?" The webinar will focus on what global evidence tells us about social assistance that responds to covariate shocks.
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Towards Inclusive Digital Finance in Indonesia
Join J-PAL Southeast Asia for a webinar to launch the Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative (IFII). To kick off this learning collaborative, key findings from the initiative's whitepaper will be shared to inform digital financial services (DFS) stakeholders and policy decisions.
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John Floretta
John Floretta has been the Global Deputy Executive Director of J-PAL since 2020 and is also Co-Chair of the Evidence to Scale Initiative. He works with J-PAL's Executive Director to set J-PAL's strategic vision and collaborates closely with the leadership of the seven regional offices. He directs...
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Community Monitoring and Nonfinancial Awards During the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Researchers partnered with the Government of Sierra Leone to evaluate the impact of community monitoring and nonfinancial awards programs on health care utilization and health outcomes. Both programs improved clinic utilization, patient satisfaction, and symptom reporting during the 2014 Ebola crisis. Further, community monitoring improved child health and reduced mortality among Ebola patients.
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Laura Schechter
Laura Schechter is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research looks at how social preferences impact economic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries and how they can be harnessed to improve outcomes. Laura has researched how to measure...
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Jonas Hjort
Jonas Hjort is a Professor of Economics at University College London. His research studies private firms and public-sector organizations in developing countries.
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Pamela Jakiela
Pamela Jakiela is a Professor of Economics at Williams College, where she studies gender issues, behavioral development economics, survey design and measurement, and impact evaluation.
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John List
John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive and normative issues.
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Social protection in the COVID-19 era: What does the evidence tell us?
J-PAL Southeast Asia’s Scientific Directors Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken will present evidence-based insights on how to strengthen safety nets to protect the poor during COVID-19. The webinar will also feature Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of Finance to discuss how lessons from evidence presented...
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Teacher Training and Student Achievement in Science: Evidence from France
Researchers evaluated the impact of its science and technology teacher training program on the educational interests and academic achievement of affected students. Student outcomes improved in the short-run during the year the teacher received the training and worsened in the year after teachers received the training.