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Nurturing Curiosity to Enhance Learning in Turkiye
In Turkiye, researchers evaluated the impact of a new pedagogical approach aimed at cultivating primary school students’ curiosity, particularly in science, to improve learning outcomes. Students whose teachers adopted the approach displayed greater curiosity, ability to retain knowledge, and science test scores, with effects persisting into middle school years.
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Gustave Robinson
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New tutoring resource: A learning path for evidence-based tutoring implementation
J-PAL North America and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) created the Implementing Evidence-Based Tutoring for High Impact learning path to give local education agencies and tutoring providers easily accessible information about effective program components and how to...
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Webinar sobre Políticas do Mercado de Trabalho: Qualificação Profissional
Você gostaria de conhecer o que dizem as evidências científicas mais recentes sobre programas de Qualificação de Profissional na América Latina? Gostaria de entender quais são os mecanismos apontados pela literatura que impulsionam a renda e a empregabilidade? Inscreva-se no “Webinar sobre Políticas...
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Announcing J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative
SfPI is part of a broader effort to equip the scientific ecosystem with the capabilities needed to apply the scientific method to itself—to create, in other words, a practice of “metascience.” Under SfPI, J-PAL will apply the methodological approach of randomized evaluation to the practice of...
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J-PAL’s MENA Scholars Fellowship
The MENA Scholars Fellowship creates a pathway for MENA region-based researchers to build skills and experience to design and conduct randomized evaluations of poverty reduction and social development policies and programs.
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J-PAL updates
New J-PAL initiative to apply the scientific method to improve science funding and policy
Cambridge, MA—The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT today announced the new Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI), designed to catalyze scientific research on the scientific process. Its purpose is to produce rigorous, quantitative evidence from randomized evaluations on the most...
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J-PAL updates
Government of Andhra Pradesh partners with J-PAL South Asia to enhance evidence-based policymaking in the state
The Government of Andhra Pradesh today announced its partnership with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to maximise the impact of its anti-poverty programs through the use of a strategic, evidence-based approach to policymaking.
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Elizabeth Linos
Elizabeth is the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor for Public Policy and Management and Faculty Director of The People Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her work primarily focuses on how to improve government services. Specifically, Elizabeth uses insights from behavioral science and...
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Juliana Londoño-Vélez
Juliana is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. The majority of Juliana’s work focuses on inequality and redistributive tax and transfer policies, with a special interest in Latin...
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Monica Martinez-Bravo
Monica is an associate professor at CEMFI, ERC Consolidator Grantee, and member of the director board of the Review of Economic Studies.
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Jamie McCasland
Jamie is an Assistant Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Her research surrounds small firm hiring, job training, and network-based technology adoption in low income countries. She has experience conducting field experiments in Kenya, Uganda, South...
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Alexia Delfino
Alexia Delfino is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University.