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Blog

Building an effective COVID-19 response: Strategies to improve health care delivery and increase health equity

Better understanding and addressing the social determinants of health is critical to improving individual and population health and advancing health equity. J-PAL North America’s COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Initiative aims to contribute to knowledge in this area by testing strategies to...
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Evaluation

Incentivizing Savings through Default Deposits and SMS Reminders

Researchers are evaluating the impact of default deposits, SMS reminders to save, and short financial training for bank clients in low-income urban areas in Chile on saving and spending decisions.
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Mariel Bedoya

Mariel Bedoya is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL LAC where she works on the implementation and evaluation of various interventions aiming to reduce informational frictions in the education market in countries like Peru and Dominican Republic.
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Lilly Bayly

Lilly Bayly is a Fall Policy and Communications Intern at J-PAL Global where she works on assisting the Policy and Communications team, and supporting J-PAL's research initiatives.
Person accessing cash from checking account with bank card at grocery store in Chile
Evaluation

Delivering Conditional Cash Transfers Through Checking and Savings Accounts in Chile

Many beneficiaries of social welfare programs around the world receive benefits in cash or by check. Can distributing welfare benefits through electronic transfers directly into bank accounts help some of these low-income individuals enter the formal financial sector? Researchers are partnering with the Chilean government to evaluate how transitioning a social welfare program from cash distribution to electronic transfers impacts recipients’ access to their funds, as well as their savings and consumption decisions.
Indonesians participate in their community block grants meetings and decision-making process as part of Generasi, 2007
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Incentivized community grants for aid effectiveness

A performance-incentivized community grant program shown to accelerate improvements in health reached about 4.9 million people from 2010 to 2018 and generated important lessons for future programs to reduce childhood stunting in Indonesia.
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Evidence to Policy Case Study

Targeted information to improve social assistance

Government scale-up improves access to targeted social programs for 65.67 million people.
Improving third-party pollution audits in Gujarat
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Strengthening third-party audits to reduce pollution

Evidence from a randomized evaluation informed the scale-up of a pollution audit policy in Gujarat, India.
Research resource

Define intake and consent process

Far from a simple administrative step, decisions about a study’s intake and consent process are critical for the success of a study. This process can affect statistical power, bias, and the validity of the study through effects on the composition of the consented study sample, the intake/consent...
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Sabhya Gupta

Sabhya Gupta is a Research, Training and Education Associate at J-PAL Global where she supports and develops training courses. She also works on projects related to research quality and data publication.
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Parental engagement to improve children's schooling

The French Ministry of Education has expanded a parental involvement program to all public schools in the country on a voluntary basis.
Smiling woman in a sari with two cows and a goat
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Targeting the ultra-poor to improve livelihoods

A multifaceted livelihood program has reached and improved the standard of living for more than three million households across more than 15 countries following randomized evaluations by J-PAL affiliates.
Three women engage in manual labor in India
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Fund flow reform for social program delivery

Central and state governments in India have adopted a financial reform to enhance public service delivery informed by evidence.
Building a government innovation lab to improve education in Peru
Evidence to Policy Case Study

A government innovation lab to improve education

With support from J-PAL and IPA, the Ministry of Education in Peru created a dedicated unit to identify, test, and scale low-cost interventions to improve educational outcomes.
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Blog

Celebrating a milestone: 1,000 randomized evaluations by J-PAL affiliates

Back in February of this year, J-PAL hit a milestone: our affiliates collectively conducted over 1,000 randomized evaluations. Six months later, we revisit this milestone with a new perspective.