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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.
Event
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.
Blog
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 .
Project
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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Srinivasa Rao Mittapally
M Srinivasa Rao Mittapally is a Finance and Administration Manager at J-PAL South Asia. He holds a Master's in Commerce from Osmania University and possesses a total of 12 years of experience in the development sector.
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Andrés Palacios Gálvez
Andrés Palacios Gálvez joined J-PAL as an intern in the Policy and Training groups at J-PAL’s regional office in the Latin America and Caribbean.
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Jon Robinson
Jonathan Robinson is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research is primarily focused in sub-Saharan Africa, and includes studies of how individuals cope with risk, a project to understand why farmers do not adopt potentially profitable agricultural...
Evaluation
Managerial Practices for Improved Productivity of Skilled Workers in the UK
Researchers worked with an airline to test the impact of different types of information and incentives on pilots’ productivity, as measured by pilots’ implementation of fuel-saving practices. Provision of personalized targets for achieving these fuel-saving practices led pilots to implement them more frequently without increasing flight delays.
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Koichiro Ito
Koichiro Ito is a Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Update
J-PAL updates
April 2021 Newsletter
J-PAL and MIT Economics look into potential barriers to higher education in the MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy as they welcome the second cohort of DEDP master's students to campus. Read about this, ways to address Covid-19 learning gaps, using evidence to promote...
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Aishwarya Singh
Aishwarya Singh is a Research Associate for Mushfiq Mobarak at J-PAL South Asia.
Research resource
Conducting cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)
This resource is intended for researchers who are interested in collecting cost data and conducting comparative cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) for their evaluation. It provides an overview of CEA, outlines the basic calculations and key assumptions, and provides two comparative CEA examples from...