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J-PAL and MIT’s Master of Applied Science in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy program adds a Public Policy Track
This expansion adds a new Public Policy Track to complement the existing International Development Track, opening up new avenues for student learning and research. Designed to tackle poverty alleviation and other pressing policy challenges in the United States and other high-income countries, the...
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Curso en línea: Introducción a la evaluación de programas y uso de evidencia para organizaciones en Centroamérica
J-PAL LAC ofrecerá una capacitación gratuita en línea para introducir la evaluación de impacto aleatorizada y el uso de evidencia para la generación de mejores programas sociales y gubernamentales.
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Building research partnerships to address wildfire risk in Jackson County, Oregon
Deputy Director of the Western Fire Chiefs Association Chief Bob Horton and researchers Judson Boomhower (UC San Diego) and Patrick Baylis (University of British Columbia) discuss their research partnership to evaluate a program encouraging households to take up wildfire prevention practices.
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Harufumi Nakazawa
Haru Nakazawa is a Research Associate at J-PAL Global, working with Professors Ben Olken (MIT) and Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School).
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Lesson #3 | What not-to-do: Wisdom from years of trials (and errors)
This blog is the final installation of a three-part series by J-PAL South Asia’s executive director Shobhini Mukerji reflecting on two decades of advancing evidence-based policymaking.
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Tanvi Goyal
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Najiba El Amrani Mida
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Susan Olivia
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Dentro do Programa MITx MicroMasters® em Dados, Economia, e Design de Políticas (DEDP) e das Bolsas de Estudo da Fundação Lemann
O programa MicroMasters® em Dados, Economia e Design de Políticas (DEDP) oferece a estudantes habilidades práticas e conhecimento teórico para enfrentar alguns dos desafios mais urgentes em todo o mundo.
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December 2023 J-PAL North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's December newsletter features reflections on our ten year anniversary, a new blog post from our researching racial equity series, and ongoing studies conducted by J-PAL’s affiliated researchers on interventions to address the opioid epidemic.
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J-PAL LAC 2023 Year Recap Newsletter
This special newsletter from J-PAL LAC celebrates J-PAL's 20th anniversary by highlighting the research center's most notable achievements in the region in the past year.
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Nikkil Sudharsanan
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Online Customer Discrimination against Female Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Researchers evaluated the impact of gender-based discrimination on female teleworkers’ productivity in online sales interactions with customers in Africa. When a customer chat representative had a female-sounding name, it led to significantly fewer purchases, and slower and more reserved reactions from customers.
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Growing evidence-informed climate policy: Five scaling stories from the King Climate Action Initiative
J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI) supports pilot studies, randomized evaluations, and scaling projects at the nexus of climate change and poverty alleviation. Three years ago, the initiative concluded its first funding competition. Since then, K-CAI has generated evidence that has...
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Increasing Women’s Local Political Participation Through Top-Down and Bottom-Up Training in Indonesia
A researcher evaluated the impact of empowerment training for female citizens and training for male council chairs on women's participation in neighborhood associations, known as rukun tetangga (RT) in Malang, East Java, Indonesia.