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Register for Covid Dialogues: Cash Grants to Support Female Entrepreneurs
Register for J-PAL’s upcoming webinar, Covid Dialogues: Cash Grants to Support Female Entrepreneurs, on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 9:00am ET / 4:00pm EAT.
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Rizka Diandra
Rizka Diandra Firdaus is a Senior Policy and Communications Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia. As part of the communications team, Rizka leads the production of communication materials and handles event management.
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Mairelys Domínguez
Mairelys Domínguez Pichardo is a Project Associate at J-PAL LAC where she helps manage the implementation of training courses and workshops, and also supports the coordination of logistics for events organized by J-PAL LAC.
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Repository of measurement and survey design resources
This is a list of resources on measurement and survey design relating to various topics. Topics are organized alphabetically for ease of navigation using the sidebar. We rely on crowd-sourced material to maintain this page and update it regularly. Feedback on the page, or suggestions of resources to...
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Understanding Gender-based Violence and Unpaid Care Work During Covid-19 in Indonesia
Researchers conducted an online survey to understand the welfare consequences of the pandemic for individuals, particularly the experiences of women related to gender-based violence (GBV) and unpaid care work in Indonesia. This survey involved 1,000 online survey respondents and 203 phone interview...
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Ntombi Mbasa
Ntombi was previous the Operations and Grants Coordinator at REEP. Prior to working at REEP, she worked as an Administrative Associate at J-PAL Africa and at EcoPlanet Bamboo SA (Pty) Ltd as an Administrator and Quality Manager.
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Summer School: “Innovations for Development”
Organized on Zoom, the summer school will present innovative approaches for development through plenary sessions conducted by renowned academic researchers, and will improve the capacity of participants in the design, implementation and use of impact evaluations of social programs.
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J-PAL Updates
May 2021 Newsletter
Read about what J-PAL is doing to improve diversity and equity in our workplace and in the field of economics, how J-PAL alumni are working in governments to promote evidence-informed policymaking, ways to address poverty alleviation relating to climate change, and more in the May 2021 Newsletter.
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A passion that became a career: J-PAL's Diana Warira receives 2021 Africa Evidence Leadership Award
J-PAL policy manager Diana Warira Njeri is the 2021 winner of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award (AELA) offered by the Africa Evidence Network (AEN). AEN caught up with Diana about receiving the award and asked her some questions about what the Africa Evidence Leadership Award means for her work.
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Evidence from the AEA RCT Registry on new research during Covid-19
A host of new studies sprung up in response to the changing realities of field work and research priorities during the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to identify trends in the research pipeline, we examined public data from the AEA RCT Registry and the Harvard Dataverse .
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Impact of the Covid-19 Lockdown on the Indian Village Economy
Researchers studied the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on the employment, food security, mental health, and beliefs of temporary migrants and their families in Tamil Nadu, India, by conducting five rounds of phone surveys. Many migrants left Chennai to move to their home communities when the...
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Reforming Indonesia’s largest food assistance program: From Rastra to BPNT
J-PAL Southeast Asia hosted a webinar to disseminate the preliminary findings from a study on the long-awaited transition from Beras Sejahtera or Rastra (previously known as Raskin), Indonesia’s largest food assistance program which covered 15.5 million beneficiaries, to non-cash food assistance or...
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Data collection, new RCTs, and policy guidance to inform pandemic response and recovery
The past year has been filled with tragedy and sacrifice—but, critically, also innovation, as researchers and policymakers addressed new challenges with creative solutions. Existing and newly generated evidence has informed many policies over the past year, providing a roadmap for incorporating...
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Building State Capacity for Tax Collection: Emerging Evidence and Implications for Practice
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, tax revenues are equivalent to just 7.5% of GDP , standing in stark contrast to higher-income countries in which tax revenues generate billions of dollars for essential government services. These challenges of domestic resource mobilization are complex and...