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Paloma Artigas San Carlos
Paloma del Pilar Artigas San Carlos is a Project Associate at J-PAL LAC, where she works on the project "School-Parent Communication with SMS" which aims assess whether the provision of school information to parents by SMS would improve the scholarly performance of children.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at J-PAL North America and Beyond
J-PAL North America is committed to testing strategies and developing resources to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion among their staff, network of researchers and partners, and underrepresented scholars in the economics field.
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Erica Field
Erica Field is a Professor of Economics at Duke University specializing in the fields of Development Economics, Health Economics, and Economic Demography.
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Strengthening Indonesia’s branchless banking agent network: Challenges and lessons from evidence
Read this recap of J-PAL SEA's Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative's webinar on Banking the unbanked: The effects of agents’ financial incentives and transparency in increasing the take-up and usage of financial products.
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Bernardita Muñoz Zech
Bernardita Muñoz is a Research Manager at J-PAL LAC where she works on coordinating the activities of the impact evaluation of “Papás al Día. School-Parents Communication with SMS.” Prior to joining J-PAL LAC in 2014, she worked at the Economics Department of Universidad de Chile.
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Laura Feeney
Laura Feeney is the Co-Executive Director of J-PAL North America. Together with Vincent Quan, her Co-Executive Director, Laura leads the office’s efforts to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by rigorous evidence in the North America region. Laura provides strategic direction to the...
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Providing Life Skills Training and Mentoring To Reduce School Dropout Among Girls in India
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of life skills training and mentoring on dropout rates and non-cognitive skills among girls in India. Their evidence suggests that the intervention is successful in developing stronger life skills including increased agency, more equitable gender norms, and stronger socio-emotional support.
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Rakesh Pandey
Rakesh Pandey is a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia where he works on the Husk Power Systems project. Prior to joining J-PAL in 2015, he worked at Quest Alliance on a USAID-funded project on School Dropout Prevention Pilot as Program Officer.
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Improving local tax collection through technology in Ghana
In partnership with Melchia Investments, a private Ghanaian technology company, researchers are conducting a pilot randomized evaluation to identify the effectiveness of a new tax collection technology in increasing property tax revenues for local governments.
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Bruce Sacerdote
Bruce Sacerdote is the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics at Dartmouth College. His research examines the impact of education on income, health, and well-being; the effect of relocation after Hurricane Katrina on students’ educational outcomes; why there are fertility differences across...
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Closing the Covid trust deficit
Economists have developed an emerging body of evidence that holds important lessons for overcoming COVID-19 information constraints, combating misinformation, and building trust in health systems. These insights may also help to improve delivery and increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccines. This op-ed...
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Chris Blattman
Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago, in the Harris School of Public Policy, as well as a research associate at NBER. He studies why some people and societies are poor, violent and unequal, and what (if anything) aid or...
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Eric Bettinger
Eric Bettinger is the Conley DeAngelis Family Professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He is the Director of the Center for Educational Policy Analysis and the Director at the Lemann Center for Brazilian Education at Stanford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Judd Kessler
Judd Kessler is a Howard Marks Professor at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He investigates the economic and psychological forces that motivate individuals to contribute to public goods inside and outside the workplace, with applications including organ donation, worker effort...
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Marygracia Aquino Pérez
Marygracia Aquino Pérez is a Survey Associate at J-PAL LAC where she works as a Fieldwork Coordinator in a project assessing the impact of information campaigns on the returns to education in the Dominican Republic.