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J-PAL and Community Jameel launch Air and Water Labs in Egypt, India, and South Africa
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) will launch the Air and Water Labs, with support from Community Jameel, to generate evidence-based solutions aimed at increasing access to clean air and water. Led by J-PAL’s Africa, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and South Asia regional...
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J-PAL North America August 2023 Newsletter
J-PAL North America's August newsletter features a blog series on fostering inclusion in economics; a new Washington Post article on rigorous research in maternal health; and a new Policy Insight and blog on federal student aid take-up.
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Augustin Bergeron
Augustin Bergeron is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research interests lie at the intersection of development economics, public economics, and political economy.
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Sylvain Chassang
Sylvain Chassang is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His research interests include game theory, experiment design, development, and industrial organization.
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Paolo Falco
Paolo Falco is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen.
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Arman Rezaee
Arman Rezaee is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. He focuses on intersections of service delivery, political economy, and technology. Rezaee’s research makes use of large-scale field experiments that leverage cellular technology, as well as natural...
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Matthias Sutter
Matthias Sutter is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and a Part-Time Professor of Experimental Economics at the Universities of Cologne and Innsbruck. Previously he worked at the European University Institute in Florence and at the University of Innsbruck. His...
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Hard data for hard choices
Before COVID-19 arrived, social scientists had already established that cash transfers and mobile money are two of the most effective tools for assisting the poor and vulnerable in difficult conditions. Now is the time for governments to act on those findings, and to build up additional data for the...
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Connecting the dots from detection to cure
If governments don’t have a good picture of the health care needs of their citizens, how can they begin to address them effectively and efficiently? Governments around the world are all too familiar with this paradox, which can be particularly challenging if administrative data on health care...
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Kamal Singh Jhala
Kamal Singh Jhala is a Senior Project Associate at J-PAL South Asia, where he works on the Mindspark Project.
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Vipin Awatramani
Vipin Awatramani works as an Associate Director of Research Operations at J-PAL South Asia where he provides research operations support to projects across J-PAL SA. His job involves managing the implementation of large scale assessments, as well as streamlining processes and systems that enable...
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J-PAL’s Social Protection sector focuses on identifying policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries effective at providing financial assistance to low-income families, insuring against shocks, and breaking poverty traps.