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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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Cordelia Kwon
Cordelia Kwon is a Policy Associate at J-PAL North America where she supports the Health Care Delivery Initiative, writes and disseminates key policy messages, and supports the development of randomized evaluations.
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Jamie Simonson
Jamie Simonson is a Policy Associate at J-PAL North America, where he primarily supports work in the education sector to develop and disseminate rigorous evidence on policies that impact students experiencing poverty.
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Beyond causality: Additional benefits of RCTs for improving health care delivery
J-PAL affiliates Marcella Alsan and Amy Finkelstein highlight four key benefits of randomized evaluations that are useful for addressing pressing health policy questions, drawing from their recent Milbank Quarterly article.
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Alex Chen
Alex Chen is a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where he works on the Political Economy and Governance sector.
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Samantha Carter, J-PAL ‘20, on bringing innovative ideas to life
As a former senior policy associate at J-PAL Global, Samantha Carter played a leading role in managing J-PAL’s government scale-up initiative and the finance sector within the policy team. Now a research and operations manager at Precision Development (PxD), she works to take innovative ideas out of...
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Hotspotting and police engagement to reduce crime and police violence in Latin America
How can we make cities safer? Unlike institutional systems like education or healthcare, which regularly collect data on activities and outcomes, crime can be more difficult to track or measure due to its concealed nature. Moreover, while crime is rampant in some countries, little is known about how...
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Designing information campaigns to increase adoption of healthy behaviors
Accurate information can help people determine which behaviors lead to improved health outcomes, but information alone is not necessarily sufficient to motivate adoption of these behaviors. When the primary barrier to the adoption of a healthy behavior is lack of awareness, information that is...
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Demitria Wack
Demitria Wack is a Senior Policy Associate supporting the Education sector at J-PAL Global.
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Nurturing the next generation of Indonesian development economists
J-PAL Southeast Asia is building a cadre of local researchers and policy practitioners in development economics and strengthening the use of rigorous evidence in policymaking.
Evaluation
Characterizing Firm-Level Discrimination in the United States
Researchers studied hiring discrimination among major employers in the United States by sending fictional resumes, with varying demographic information, to determine whether certain characteristics would lead to different follow-up contact rates. Employers were less likely to contact resumes with distinctively Black names than resumes with distinctively white names.