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Reshaping Gender Attitudes to Promote Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: What Can We Learn from the Evidence?

J-PAL Southeast Asia is hosting a public webinar, “Reshaping Gender Attitudes to Promote Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: What Can We Learn from Evidence?” featuring H.E. I Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati (Minister of Women Empowerment and Child Protection of the Republic of Indonesia) as keynote...
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eGov Foundation partners with J-PAL South Asia to improve government service delivery in India through effective use of technology and data

eGovernments Foundation (eGov) is partnering with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab South Asia (J-PAL South Asia) to conduct research on improving public service delivery across Indian states through effective use of digital technology and data.
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Generating Evidence for Climate Action in Europe

K-CAI Europe aims to create a playbook of dozens of cost-effective policy solutions in two focus areas: mitigation and pollution reduction. The former aims to reduce emissions to slow the pace of climate change, while the latter aims to reduce harmful carbon co-pollutants and improve public health.
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Normalizing mask usage to combat Covid-19

A community-level mask distribution and promotion program tripled mask usage in Bangladesh and is now being scaled up in multiple countries, reaching almost 14 million people in South Asia.
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Register for the Reshaping Gender Attitudes to Promote Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: What Can We Learn from Evidence? webinar

Register for the Reshaping Gender Attitudes to Promote Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: What Can We Learn from Evidence? webinar
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Attracting Talented Workers by Reducing Application Costs in Ethiopia

Researchers partnered with an employer in Addis Ababa to assess the impact of a small monetary incentive to apply for a job or a higher wage offer on the quality of applicants to a vacancy for a clerical position. Both of these changes increased the quality of applicants by similar amounts.
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Exploring the benefits of rigorous evidence with the team behind the evaluation of RIP Medical Debt

Allison Sesso (Executive Director of RIP Medical Debt) and Wes Yin (UCLA) discuss the ongoing randomized evaluation of RIP Medical Debt’s model for buying and relieving medical debt.
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Khadija Noor

Khadija Noor joined J-PAL in 2021 as the Senior Development Associate for the North America regional office. She provides executive support to Associate Director of Policy Vincent Quan and project management support across the policy vertical.
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Cash Transfers and Management Advice for Farmers in Senegal

In Senegal, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to study the effect of providing management advice and a one-time cash transfer on agricultural productivity and farmers’ investment in their businesses. Receiving both the cash transfer and management advice had positive impacts on yields and livestock as well as farmers’ investment in agricultural equipment, while receiving management advice only did not impact agricultural investments.
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Catalyzing the use of evidence for effective business training and finance in Egypt

Alison Fahey and Lobna Kassim reflect on the successful partnership between J-PAL MENA at AUC and the MSME Development Agency to create a culture of evidence-based program and policy design.
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Strengthening randomized evaluations with qualitative research: Baby’s First Years mothers' experiences

In this post, the researchers on the Baby's First Years study reflect on the value of qualitative research in both providing a deeper understanding of each participant’s background and context and painting a fuller picture of mothers’ experiences in the study.
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Building a robust evidence-based research community: Strengthening pathways for African researchers

Researchers from many groups are underrepresented in the field of economics and face numerous barriers to their growth. We hold the conviction that research grounded in knowledge of the geographic and cultural context, with local scholars leading the research agenda, will translate to more policy...
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Community Driven Development in the Philippines

Community-based approaches to development, also called community-driven development (CDD), seek to empower local communities to identify and implement the projects they most need. Researchers evaluated the impact of a national community-driven development program in the Philippines on governance, social capital, and socio-economic welfare.
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Examining the Impact of Rainfall Insurance and Family Networks in Burkina Faso

Researchers partnered with IPA and PlaNet Guarantee to conduct a large-scale randomized evaluation that will measure demand for rainfall insurance among both urban migrants and rural households and its impact on the economic outcomes of the latter group.