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Adrien Bouguen
Adrien joined J-PAL Europe in 2009 and is currently working on a thesis about teaching methods and teachers’ practices. He is specialized in Economics of education and has a vast diversity of experiences in evaluation techniques and Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT).
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Information and enforcement to reduce overfishing
Evidence from a randomized evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis led the Chilean government to expand a consumer information campaign to protect at-risk marine species.
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J-PAL and King Philanthropies launch the King Climate Action Initiative to design, test, and scale solutions at the nexus of climate change and poverty
Cambridge, MA—A $25 million gift will underpin a new initiative to combat both climate change and poverty through scalable, evidence-based policy solutions, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT and King Philanthropies announced today. The new King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI...
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Pandemic provides unprecedented opportunities to take justice online
Labor courts in Mexico and many other low- and middle-income countries often provide low quality services. Since 2015, we have partnered with the Mexico City Labor Court, one of the largest courts dealing with firing cases in Latin America, to innovate in improving the court’s functioning.
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Chris Perez
Chris Perez is a member of the Class of 2012 majoring in Economics and Mathematics from Brownsville, Texas,
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Natan Goldberger
Natan Goldberger is an Operations Assistant at the J-PAL Latin America office. Currently, he is studying to obtain his Master (M.Sc.) degree in Financial Engineering.
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How filling in the information gaps can increase student learning
Educators around the world are currently engaging in many creative strategies to encourage learning despite closed schools, social distancing policies, and other COVID-imposed obstacles to traditional classroom-based learning. This blog summarizes the key takeaway messages from J-PAL’s new policy...
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Announcing joint partnership to launch the Morocco Employment Lab
J-PAL and Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard are partnering with the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Morocco Agency to launch the Morocco Employment Lab.
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Webinar: Inter-state migration in India in the time of COVID-19
In the wake of the dynamic flows of the migrant labor force in India due to COVID-19 and resulting lockdown measures, state governments, policymakers, and researchers are faced with a number of complex questions: Will the ongoing pandemic make local, partial, or full lockdowns necessary? Will...
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Evidence for Social Policy in Europe
How can we design more effective social programmes across Europe? J-PAL affiliated researchers focus on the contribution made by randomised evaluations to the development of high-quality evidence for informing social policy.
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Reflections from seven years of research in J-PAL’s Post-Primary Education Initiative
J-PAL’s Post-Primary Education Initiative has funded more than 140 projects since its inception in 2013. We reflect on what we’ve learned through this research—and where we go from here.
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Voices from the field: Enumerator spotlight
J-PAL affiliates have now conducted over 1,000 randomized evaluations in 84 countries, scaling up a Nobel Prize-winning approach to poverty alleviation research. To celebrate this milestone, we’re highlighting the people who have facilitated this research throughout the years.
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Reducing community college dropout through comprehensive supports
Providing community college students with a wide range of comprehensive supports, such as counseling, tutoring, and financial assistance, can improve low rates of persistence and graduation. These support programs address many simultaneous barriers that students face, which may be a key driver...
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Monitoring the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
The rapid spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia has wreaked havoc on Indonesia's economy. J-PAL SEA has been conducting a continuous online survey since April 2020 to provide real-time data on the impact of COVID-19 in Indonesia.