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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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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.
Improving take-up of tax benefits in the United States
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Simplified reminders to increase take-up of tax credits

Following an evaluation in California testing variations of reminder letters to low-income households to increase take-up of tax credits, the US tax agency scaled up nationally the use of messaging on notification letters that simply and prominently displayed potential benefits.
Improving learning through intensive individualized tutoring in the US
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Individualized tutoring to improve learning

Saga Education’s intensive math tutoring program has been shown to improve academic outcomes and has now reached 12,000 students facing barriers in the United States.
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Limits of technological solutions to provider monitoring

Based on evidence that biometric monitoring technology did not increase doctors' attendance at primary health centers, the government of Karnataka decided to end the program, saving taxpayers millions of dollars.
Stack of resumes
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Unintended effects of anonymous resumes

The French government abandoned a policy that would have required firms to make recruitment decisions based on anonymized resumes after research showed that a voluntary, pilot scheme actually harmed minority applicants’ employment chances.
Apartment buildings in a city
Evidence to Policy Case Study

Promoting housing choice to improve economic mobility

Evidence from a flagship randomized evaluation in the United States prompted legislative and administrative changes to expand housing choice for low-income families.
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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).
Fishing boat in Chile
Evidence to Policy Case Study

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.