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A healthy understanding
Amy Finkelstein has changed what we know about Medicaid, Medicare, the economics of health care—and, increasingly, medical care itself.
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Street Police Patrolling to Reduce Harassment of Women in Public Spaces in India
In partnership with the Hyderabad City Police (HCP), researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a police patrolling program aimed at improving women’s safety on the frequency of sexual harassment and women’s freedom to move around in public spaces. The presence of uniformed officers in public spaces reduced instances of severe forms of sexual harassment and led to fewer women relocating from the patrolled areas.
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Cash Transfers for Child Health Initiative
The Cash Transfers for Child Health Initiative (CaTCH) seeks to improve child health by generating policy-relevant rigorous evidence on the design and delivery of cash transfer and pay-for-performance programs in India.
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Jenna Juwono
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Gabriel Charlotte Wajong
Gabriel Charlotte Wajong is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where she currently works on interventions that aim to reduce the rate of child marriage in Indonesia.
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Sharanya Chandran
Sharanya leads strategic planning and day-to-day management of the policy vertical at J-PAL South Asia and provides strategic oversight to the different sector teams.
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Improving Education Outcomes in North America
J-PAL North America’s Education team works to catalyze randomized evaluations and disseminate evidence on innovative tactics to improve student learning and expand access to quality education.
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European Social Inclusion Initiative
Launched in 2019, J-PAL’s European Social Inclusion Initiative (ESII) aims to generate and share widely applicable lessons about promoting social inclusion in Europe through research, training and policy outreach.
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Government Partnerships Initiative
J-PAL’s Government Partnership Initiative (GPI) ran from 2015-2018 to build and strengthen partnerships between governments and J-PAL affiliates and J-PAL regional offices to increase the use of evidence in policymaking.
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Addressing Homelessness and Housing Stability in North America
J-PAL North America’s work combating homelessness seeks to expand the base of rigorous evidence on strategies to reduce and prevent homelessness and foster housing stability.
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Jobs and Opportunity Initiative
J-PAL’s Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (JOI) supports randomized evaluations to find effective strategies for improving employment outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, and translates evidence into actionable insights.
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Innovation in Government Initiative
J-PAL’s Innovation in Government Initiative (IGI) funds technical assistance to governments to adapt, pilot, and scale evidence-informed innovations with a strong potential to improve the lives of millions of people living in poverty.
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Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action Initiative
J-PAL’s Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action Initiative (IDEA) aims to increase the use of administrative data by governments, non-profits, and private firms for evidence-informed decision-making.
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Latin America Skills for Youth Program
The Skills for Youth Program (SYP) seeks to identify and rigorously evaluate innovative solutions to improve youth employment in Latin America. Specifically, one of it goals is to address the gap between youth skills and labor market demand.
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Post-Primary Education Initiative
J-PAL’s Post-Primary Education (PPE) Initiative funds randomized evaluations that develop and test innovative solutions for improving access, quality, equity, and relevance of post-primary education in low- and middle-income countries.