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Nicole Catrina Santos
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North America Social Policy Research Initiative (SPRI)
J-PAL North America's Social Policy Research Initiative (SPRI), formerly known as the General Research Initiative, supports randomized impact evaluations of innovative social programs and policies that can provide insights for learning which policies work best and why.
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Initiative projects and documents
Social Policy Research Initiative Request for Proposals
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Turning data into insights: How Cape Town is building a smarter, more equitable city
Cape Town’s 2017 water crisis prompted the City government to look at its data differently. Behind the millions of meter readings and billing records lay unanswered questions: How successful were the water conservation efforts across different areas in Cape Town? What does equitable water pricing...
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Sharon Barnhardt
Sharon Barnhardt is the Director of Research at the Centre for Social and Behavioural Change at Ashoka University. Her research focuses on issues of urban development and rural health in India, through the use of natural and randomized evaluations.
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Shawn Cole
Shawn Cole is the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research examines agriculture, corporate finance, banking, and consumer finance in developing countries.
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Simon Quinn
Simon Quinn is an Associate Professor at the Imperial College Business School. Simon studies development economics with a focus on firms. Currently, Simon is researching entrepreneurship and networks, youth unemployment and labor market access, novel models of microfinance, and community...
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Simone Schaner
Simone Schaner is an Associate Professor (Research) of Economics at the University of Southern California. Her research applies insights from behavioral economics to examine savings behavior in Kenya and Ghana, and the delivery and adoption of malaria treatment in Kenya.
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Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon is a Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department of the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Jesus College.
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Rebecca Thornton
Rebecca Thornton is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on health, education, and gender. Across these topics, her work addresses core issues within economics, including the role of subjective beliefs in decision-making and how social...
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Rema Hanna
Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South East Asia Studies and a Co-Director of the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) research program at the Center for International Development, Harvard University. In addition, she’s the Scientific Director for Southeast Asia at the Abdul Latif Jameel...
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Reshmaan Hussam
Reshmaan N. Hussam is the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and part of the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit.
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Robert Garlick
Robert Garlick is a Research Associate at Duke University. His research focuses on education and labor economics in developing countries.
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Robert Osei
Robert Darko Osei is a Professor in the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Legon.
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Robin Burgess
Robin Burgess is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His areas of research interest include development economics, public economics, political economy, labor economics and environmental economics.