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Intensive Case Management to Overcome Barriers to Self-Sufficiency in the United States
Researchers are working with the City of Rochester and local social service providers to evaluate the Bridges to Success program, in which participants are paired with mentors who help them move towards economic self-sufficiency.
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Impact of Customized Information and Mediation on Labor Court Settlement Rates in Mexico
Researchers conducted two randomized evaluations to test the impacts of providing customized information on predicted case outcomes or conciliation services on labor court settlement rates in Mexico. Both interventions nearly doubled the immediate settlement rate, but only when the plaintiff was there to personally receive the information, and evidence suggests that the interventions increased payments to workers.
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Providing Post-Training Assistance to Young Jobseekers to Improve Employment Outcomes in India
Researchers are evaluating the impact of providing additional information and resources to those who have completed skills training programs on employment outcomes.
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Lori Beaman
Lori Beaman is the Breen Family Professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. Lori's research interests lie in development and labor economics with a focus on the role of social networks in the labor market and in agriculture, and women's economic and social mobility.
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Orazio Attanasio
Orazio Attanasio is the Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University, a Research Fellow and one of the Directors of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, and co-director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo@IFS) at the Institute for Fiscal...
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Promoting girls’ participation in schools: insights from academic research
What actions can countries take to implement or reinforce efforts to increase school participation for girls? Pascaline Dupas (Stanford; Co-Chair, J-PAL’s Health sector) presented evidence from randomized evaluations on interventions that have increased school participation in a recent webinar.
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Costas Meghir
Costas Meghir is the Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics at Yale University. His interests include labor economics, household behavior, retirement and pensions, income distribution, consumption, demand analysis, and development economics. Since 2004, he has been Co-Director of the Economic...
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Leading evidence-based labor policies in Morocco
This first training event, led by the Morocco Employment Lab (MEL), gathered senior officials from key labor market institutions.
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Natalia Rigol
Natalia Rigol is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. She studies the design, targeting, and delivery of financial products to the world’s poorest people, with a particular focus on financial inclusion for women. Currently, Natalia is researching the interaction between financial...
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#DayoftheGirlChild: Preventing the surge in teenage pregnancies due to COVID-19
In this blog, we highlight key interventions that policymakers and practitioners may wish to consider to urgently reduce child marriages and teenage pregnancies in light of the pandemic.
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Aditya Balasubramanian
Aditya works on the Delhi Voters Project, which seeks to understand how information provision affects voting preferences in Delhi slums and middle-class areas.
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J-PAL updates
July 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL announces the launch of J-PAL Middle East and North Africa, its newest regional research center, and reaches a major milestone: over 1,000 evaluations across 84 countries.