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Sector Policy Insights

Policy Insights in Political Economy and Governance

J-PAL’s Political Economy and Governance sector seeks to improve governance and service delivery in developing countries. Our policy insights below summarize the general lessons emerging from randomized evaluations on topics such as the impact of gender quotas on women’s political representation and...

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Thomas Kane

Thomas Kane is the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Between 2009 and 2012, he directed the Measures of Effective Teaching project for the Gates Foundation.
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Philip Oreopoulos

Philip Oreopoulos is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research. He has held previous visiting appointments at Harvard and the...
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Alain de Janvry

Alain de Janvry is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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King Climate Action Initiative’s first round of projects: Testing and scaling climate solutions

J-PAL's King Climate Action Initiative announced the results of its first competition aimed at identifying innovative solutions at the intersection of poverty and climate change, serving as a critical first step in building a longer playbook of evidence-based and cost-effective climate change...
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Elisabeth Sadoulet

Elisabeth Sadoulet is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests span agricultural technologies, microcredit, conservation, conditional cash transfers, and property rights. Sadoulet has conducted field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America...
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Meredith Fowlie

Meredith Fowlie holds the Class of 1935 Endowed Chair in Energy at UC Berkeley. She is a Professor in the Agriculture and Resource Economics department, faculty Co-Director at the Energy Institute at Haas, an affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group, and a Research Associate at the...
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Yamina Mohattane

Yamina is J-PAL's Morocco Employment Lab Project Manager, where she provides operational support to set up and grow the Lab’s organizational and financial management capabilities.
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Rigorous testing of social policies in Europe: What are we learning?

Researchers in the J-PAL network have conducted over 80 ongoing or completed randomized evaluations of social programs and policies across 20 European countries, with a particular focus on education and labor markets. J-PAL Europe has launched a summary of insights generated from this research.
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Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition

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ESII Request for Proposals

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ESII Partnership Opportunities

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Governance Initiative Conference Travel Grants

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Innovation in Government Initiative Request for Proposals

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Banking The Unbanked: The Effects Of Agents’ Financial Incentives And Transparency in Increasing The Take-up and Usage of Financial Products

Join J-PAL Southeast Asia’s Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative for a learning collaborative webinar to share valuable findings from a randomized evaluation conducted by IFII invited researchers on increasing the take-up and usage of branchless banking products. This webinar will feature a...