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Short- and Long-term Effects of the Lockdown on Young Rural Migrants from Bihar and Jharkhand
Researchers assessed the short- and long-term effects of the lockdown on labor migrants from Bihar and Jharkhand. Initial phone surveys find that 45 percent of migrant who resided outside of their home state in the pre-lockdown period had returned to their home state, 32 percent who had salaried...
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Assessing Skill Gaps and Unemployment Patterns In Tamil Nadu: Extension Survey on the Impact of Covid-19 on Labor Market Scenarios for Industrial Training Institute Youth
Researchers studied the employment status and aspirations of youth (including graduates, dropouts, and current students) enrolled in Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) in Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2019. Surveys focused on the principal activities these youth were engaged in before the onset of Covid...
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Promoting upward mobility in partnership with state and local governments: The intersection of gender, race, health, and poverty alleviation
This blog post is part two of three in a series on how state and local governments in the United States can promote upward mobility in their communities. It is part of J-PAL North America’s work to develop a learning agenda that summarizes the core research priorities from state and local...
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Building Footbridges to Improve Market Access and Agricultural Outcomes in Rwanda
In partnership with Bridges to Prosperity, the researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation across 23 districts in Rwanda to determine the impact of building footbridges on wages and agricultural technology adoption and production.
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October 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL launches a new handbook on Using Administrative Data for Research and Evidence-based Policy in the October 2020 Newsletter.
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The Impact of Early Childhood Psychosocial Stimulation on Child Development Outcomes in Odisha, India
Researchers evaluated the impact of an early childhood psychosocial stimulation program on child development outcomes in urban Odisha, India. They found that a home-visiting stimulation program led to greater development outcomes, particularly for boys, stunted children, and children with more educated mothers.
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The Impact of Daily Quizzing on Student Achievement in Kenya
Researchers are partnering with Bridge International Academies to evaluate the impact of daily quizzing on students’ learning outcomes in Kenya.
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The Impact of Rapid Performance Feedback on Student Achievement in Nigeria
Researchers are partnering with Bridge International Academies to evaluate the impacts of interleaved problem sets, which allow for rapid performance feedback, on students’ learning outcomes in Nigeria.
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The Impact of Personalized SMS Messages to Parents on Student Achievement in Kenya
Researchers are partnering with Bridge International Academies to evaluate the impact of an SMS-based information provision program on students’ learning outcomes in Kenya.
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The devil’s in the details (of adapting and scaling evidence-based programs)
J-PAL Senior Policy Associate Robert Rogers discusses his experience working on an education scale-up in Cote d'Ivoire.
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J-PAL Europe announces new project funding, expanded research initiative for tackling challenges of social exclusion of migrants
J-PAL Europe announces new project funding together with BNP Paribas and expanded research initiative for tackling challenges of social exclusion of migrants.
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Reaching the most vulnerable: Can digitization improve social assistance targeting?
Governments around the world rely on social assistance to reduce poverty, but the poorest are often left behind. To what extent can digital identity and payment systems improve targeting of government transfers?
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The Role of Protest Experience and Social Networks in Protest Movements in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of indirectly incentivizing protest participation on sustained participation in a political movement and to identify the role social networks play in protest turnout. Indirectly incentivizing participants to attend a political protest increased their participation regardless of how many of their peers received the same incentive. Participants’ subsequent protest participation remained persistently higher a year later, but only when at least half of their social network was also incentivized to attend the initial protest.