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Webinar sobre Políticas do Mercado de Trabalho: Qualificação Profissional
Você gostaria de conhecer o que dizem as evidências científicas mais recentes sobre programas de Qualificação de Profissional na América Latina? Gostaria de entender quais são os mecanismos apontados pela literatura que impulsionam a renda e a empregabilidade? Inscreva-se no “Webinar sobre Políticas...
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Announcing J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative
SfPI is part of a broader effort to equip the scientific ecosystem with the capabilities needed to apply the scientific method to itself—to create, in other words, a practice of “metascience.” Under SfPI, J-PAL will apply the methodological approach of randomized evaluation to the practice of...
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J-PAL’s MENA Scholars Fellowship
The MENA Scholars Fellowship creates a pathway for MENA region-based researchers to build skills and experience to design and conduct randomized evaluations of poverty reduction and social development policies and programs.
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New J-PAL initiative to apply the scientific method to improve science funding and policy
Cambridge, MA—The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT today announced the new Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI), designed to catalyze scientific research on the scientific process. Its purpose is to produce rigorous, quantitative evidence from randomized evaluations on the most...
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Government of Andhra Pradesh partners with J-PAL South Asia to enhance evidence-based policymaking in the state
The Government of Andhra Pradesh today announced its partnership with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to maximise the impact of its anti-poverty programs through the use of a strategic, evidence-based approach to policymaking.
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Monica Martinez-Bravo
Monica is an associate professor at CEMFI, ERC Consolidator Grantee, and member of the director board of the Review of Economic Studies.
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Training gender practitioners in South Asia in strategies to measure gender outcomes
The Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results, hosted at J-PAL South Asia, conducted a five-day online workshop on Applying a Gender Lens to Program Evaluation in February 2021. This workshop covered content on the measurement of gender outcomes, such as gender norms, agency, attitudes...
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Mochamad Thoriq Akbar
Mochamad Thoriq Akbar is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia where he works on randomized evaluation on school-based intervention.
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How can RCTs help us reduce violence and conflict? 2021 update
The Governance, Crime, and Conflict Initiative seeks to expand the evidence base on effective conflict and violence prevention programs. Read about our efforts to summarize what we're learning in the new edition of the GCCI Evidence Wrap-up.
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J-PAL South Asia launches Indian Scholars Program to strengthen ties with India-based researchers
J-PAL South Asia’s new Indian Scholars Program (ISP) will provide research funding, training, and networking opportunities for researchers and academics in India to further expand its network of researchers leading rigorous, policy-relevant randomized evaluations in the country.
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Clare Hofmeyr
Clare Hofmeyr is Associate Director of Education & Training at J-PAL Africa. She leads J-PAL Africa’s training activities as well as the drive to increase the representation of African researchers within J-PAL’s network and experimental economics.
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Anirudh Krishnan
Anirudh Krishnan is a Senior Evidence to Scale Associate at J-PAL Global where he manages the Innovation in Government Initiative and supports J-PAL's broader efforts to enable evidence use and adoption at scale of evidence-based policies and programs.