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Marcella Alsan
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Kevin Donovan
Kevin Donovan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management and an affiliate of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE).
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Launching J-PAL’s newest regional office in the Middle East and North Africa
J-PAL MENA will support the region’s development priorities, including COVID-19 response and recovery. J-PAL MENA's Scientific Directors and Interim Executive Director lay out their vision for the office in this letter.
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Mayor de Blasio, bring back summer jobs
There is still time, and it can be done safely. The economic and social payoff is totally worth it. This op-ed was originally posted in the New York Times on June 29, 2020.
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Cash-for-Work Program to Improve Social Cohesion between Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan
Researchers use a large-scale RCT to evaluate a program aimed to improve cohesion between Syrian refugees and their host communities in Jordan.
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Social protection in the COVID-19 era: What can the evidence tell us?
On Wednesday, June 24, Rema Hanna (Scientific Director, J-PAL Southeast Asia), and Benjamin Olken (Director, J-PAL; Scientific Director, J-PAL Southeast Asia) shared learning from evidence laying for social protection systems to adequately respond to the COVID-19 context at an online event hosted by...
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Taking an evidence-informed approach to pandemic response
As the COVID-19 pandemic started to take hold worldwide, J-PAL affiliated professors and staff jumped into action to critically analyze the evidence base and work closely with government partners to inform policy decisions with evidence.
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Foundations of ethical and high-quality data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic
There have been many innovations in data collection methods over the past few months to adapt to contactless research. Many research organizations, including J-PAL, have shifted to data collection through phone surveys, as field activities remain halted. As we support and strengthen these...
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Marking a milestone: Our most-read evaluations
Over the past seventeen years, J-PAL affiliated professors have collectively conducted more than 1,000 completed and ongoing randomized evaluations. This achievement reflects the tremendous commitment of our affiliated professors, implementing partners, and research staff, alongside the trust of...
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Bhavya Sinha
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Job Search Assistance for Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation that introduced an adaptive targeted treatment assignment methodology to measure the impact of providing different types of job search assistance on job search rates and labor outcomes for Syrian refugees and local jobseekers in Jordan. While none of the interventions had an impact on whether participants were in wage employment after six weeks, a small cash transfer had large impacts on refugee employment and earnings two and four months after the intervention.
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Mrignaina Tikku
Mrignaina Tikku is a Senior Research Associate on the project Engendering Policing: Evaluating Reforms to Increase Women’s Access to Security & Justice (MPP-UV), in Madhya Pradesh.
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Sandeep Singh
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Tejal Johri
Tejal Johri is a Research Manager at J-PAL South Asia in the Payments and Governance Research Program (PGRP) and is based in Mumbai.
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