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Martin Sielfeld O'Ryan
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New Displaced Livelihoods Initiative will help advance sustainable livelihoods for displaced and host communities
Today, we announce the launch of the Displaced Livelihoods Initiative (DLI), jointly managed by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), with generous support from the IKEA Foundation. DLI is the world’s first research fund dedicated to generating...
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Matias Bertranou Dammert
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Orlando Huaman Flores
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Alexandre Grellet
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Zahra Boudalaoui-Buresi
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The effect of nudges on health insurance take-up in the United States
Providing nudges to individuals eligible for health insurance benefits leads to small but notable increases in insurance take-up and plan switching. Low-cost, mass-outreach campaigns are particularly cost-effective compared to more-intensive interventions.
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Overcoming administrative burdens: Strategies to increase access to health insurance in the United States
A new J-PAL policy insight highlights evidence from randomized evaluations on the impact of informational “nudges”—strategies designed to inform individuals about various aspects of health insurance and influence behavior without changing legal or economic systems—on health insurance take-up. In...
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Impact of Watchdog Journalism on Public Service Provision in Tanzania
Researchers examined the impact of local watchdog journalism investigations on public service provision. Local journalism improved government performance and service delivery, likely by helping central governments monitor bureaucrats at the district-level.
Evaluation
Impact of School Leadership Training on Management Practices and Student Learning in India
In this randomized evaluation, researchers will test the impact of a large-scale leadership training program in India on improving school management practices and student learning. The intervention is ongoing, and results are forthcoming.
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The J-PAL dataverse turns 15: Fifteen uses for published RCT data packages
In July, we published a blog describing how to access any of the 130+ datasets (and other materials!) from the J-PAL dataverse, our primary location for publishing data and replication packages produced from the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) our affiliated researchers have run over the past...
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Accelerating financial inclusion in Indonesia through innovations in digital financial services: Early learnings from exploratory and pilot studies
On 26 January 2023, IFII hosted a learning collaborative to share insights from exploratory and pilot studies to inform policy and decision-making in the digital financial inclusion space. Speakers and participants from government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector had the...
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DEDP webinar: Your path to a credential in the MITx MicroMasters® Program
Join us for a sixty-minute webinar about the MicroMasters® program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) to learn more about the program and ask questions in a live Q&A session!
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Chiara Franzoni
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