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TaRL activities taking place in a classroom in Gujarat, India
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Teaching at the Right Level to improve learning

Reorienting instruction has improved learning opportunities for over 60 million students in India and Africa.
Kenya’s National School-Based Deworming Programme rolls out in Kwale province, Kenya.
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Deworming to increase school attendance

After research found that school-based distribution of deworming pills in areas with high infection rates boosted health and school attendance, the approach has been scaled to reach over 280 million children in 2019.
A woman receives a free insecticide-treated bednet at a health clinic in Kakamega County, Kenya.
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Free bednets to fight malaria

Evidence from randomized evaluations played a role in shifting global opinion to support free distribution of key preventive health products.
Police training improves public perception and police morale.
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Skills training to strengthen police performance

Training in soft skills for police in Rajasthan, India improved public perceptions of their performance.
Indonesians participate in their community block grants meetings and decision-making process as part of Generasi, 2007
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Incentivized community grants for aid effectiveness

A performance-incentivized community grant program shown to accelerate improvements in health reached about 4.9 million people from 2010 to 2018 and generated important lessons for future programs to reduce childhood stunting in Indonesia.
TNP2K commercial about the social protection identification card.
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Targeted information to improve social assistance

A government scale-up has improved access to targeted social programs for 65 million people.
Woman patient with bandage compression knee brace to support injury on hospital bed.
Evaluation

The Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Medicare Bundled Payment Reform

Researchers evaluated the spillover effects of a nationwide Medicare bundled payment reform on privately insured Medicare Advantage (MA) patients who were not targeted by the reform. They found that the bundled payment reform’s spillover effect on non-targeted MA patients was similar to the bundled payment reform’s direct effect on targeted Traditional Medicare patients.
Improving third-party pollution audits in Gujarat
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Strengthening third-party audits to reduce pollution

Evidence from a randomized evaluation informed the scale-up of a pollution audit policy in Gujarat, India.
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Thomas Fujiwara

Thomas Fujiwara is an Associate Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His research is centered on political economy topics, with a particular focus on developing countries.
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Wyatt Brooks

Wyatt Brooks is an Associate Professor, at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He studies the effects of trade and market access within countries and across countries, as well as barriers to firm growth.
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David Molitor

David Molitor is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research explores how location and the environment shape health and healthcare delivery. His recent work includes a large-scale field experiment of workplace wellness conducted at the University of...
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Christopher Walters

Christopher Walters is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research covers topics in labor economics, education, and applied econometrics. His current work focuses on school choice, school effectiveness, and early childhood interventions, with...
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Claudia Martínez Alvear

Claudia Martínez is on leave as a J-PAL affiliate. She is currently serving as the economics lead specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank.
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Gabrielle Hauray

Gabrielle Hauray is the Senior Finance and Operations Manager at J-PAL Global.
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Greg Duncan

Greg Duncan is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.