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Jonathan Guryan
Jonathan Guryan is the Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.
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Audrey Cabral
Audrey Cabral joined J-PAL in 2019 and works as Human Resources Associate for the North America regional office.
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Anushka Bansal
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Hamza Zakraoui
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Joanna Lahey
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Nikita Singh
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Indriani Pratiwi
Indriani Pratiwi is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia. Her research experience includes: socio-economic impacts of Covid-19, social protection programs, gender-based violence & unpaid care work, and female adolescent health. She is also a member of the J-PAL Gender Working Group
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Enhancing Climate Finance Access for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Insights From Payments for Ecosystem Services
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) reward landholders and communities for protecting nature, with research showing that well-designed programs can slow deforestation and enhance ecosystems at low cost. However, traditional outcome-based models often overlook communities' ways of life, limiting...
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Building Evidence Ecosystems in Industrial Policy and Market Access through Training
This training workshop aims to strengthen the capacity of government employees from the Ministry of Industry and other relevant ministries and agencies.
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Mackenzie Alston
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The Effect of School Choice on Academic Achievement in the United States
Researchers used Chicago’s school choice program, which uses a random lottery to allocate slots in elementary schools, to evaluate how the opportunity to attend a higher-quality school impacts academic achievement. They found that lottery winners are more likely to attend higher-performing schools, but they do not have higher test scores than their peers who were not offered slots.
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Julia Kaufman
Julia Kaufman is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Africa, where she develops partnerships with researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to generate and use evidence on private sector development, firm growth, and job creation.
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Natalie Valent
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Giorgia Barboni
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New resource: Incorporating remote sensing data into randomized evaluations
A growing number of economists are incorporating remotely sensed (RS) data—satellite data in particular—into their studies. For randomized evaluations, remote data collection offers alluring possibilities: lower data collection costs, a longer time series of data both before and after an...