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May 2020 Newsletter
Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken write about expanding social protection amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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10 tips for learner success in online courses
To help ease the transition to online learning, Quetzali Ramírez, a top-performing MicroMasters learner and teaching assistant (TA), and I compiled ten tips gathered from our collective experience as online learners and supporters of others’ online learning experiences.
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December 2019 Newsletter
J-PAL's December 2019 newsletter celebrates Nobel laureates, J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and longtime J-PAL affiliate Michael Kremer, welcomes twelve new affiliate professors, and discusses European Social Inclusion Initiative's first round of grant funding.
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January 2020 Newsletter
J-PAL's January 2020 newsletter looks back at J-PAL's accomplishments, including launching new initiatives, growing the online MicroMasters program, and J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and longtime affiliate Michael Kremer being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Cash and Microenterprise Support for the Ultra-Poor in Uganda
In partnership with the Association of Volunteers in International Service, researchers evaluated the impact of the Women’s Income Generating Support (WINGS) program, an initiative which provided low-income Ugandan individuals, mainly women, with financial grants, business skills training, and ongoing supervision on individuals’ economic outcomes. The WINGS program improved individuals’ earnings and access to nonfarm business opportunities in postwar Uganda.
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The Impact of Government Subsidies on Private Secondary School Performance in Uganda
Researchers partnered with the Ugandan government to evaluate the impact of a public private partnership (PPP) program with low-cost private secondary schools on absorbing large increases in secondary school enrollment in Uganda. The PPP program led to both greater private school enrollment and higher student performance, with improved performance potentially being linked to increased input availability and positive household-driven selection of PPP student participants.
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Heather McCurdy
Heather McCurdy joined J-PAL in 2011 to provide human subjects administration and support for Esther Duflo and the Global office. Heather spent five years in economic consulting support in Boston but previously spent two years in Mali with the Peace Corps.
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Digital IDs: The good, the bad, and the unknown
As policymakers across Africa are increasingly investing in digital identification systems, the Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI) explores what the benefits, challenges, and unknowns are.
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Gabriel Cruz
Gabriel Cruz is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL LAC, where he works on several projects related to understanding the effects of public policies on education, pensions, among other topics lead by Prof. Claudia Allende (Stanford University).
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Lauren Roode
Lauren is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Africa where she works with affiliates, policymakers and practitioners to further the J-PAL agenda of using evidence to inform policy.
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Thomas Ferreira
Thomas Ferreira is a Senior Data Associate at J-PAL Africa working on the Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) Initiative.
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Faith Masekesa
Faith holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies of Japan.
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Benjamin Roth
Benjamin Roth is the Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on understanding and relaxing the constraints to small-scale entrepreneurship in the developing world and how investors should behave when they have...