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Natalia Rigol

Natalia Rigol is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. She studies the design, targeting, and delivery of financial products to the world’s poorest people, with a particular focus on financial inclusion for women. Currently, Natalia is researching the interaction between financial...
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#DayoftheGirlChild: Preventing the surge in teenage pregnancies due to COVID-19

In this blog, we highlight key interventions that policymakers and practitioners may wish to consider to urgently reduce child marriages and teenage pregnancies in light of the pandemic.
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Aditya Balasubramanian

Aditya works on the Delhi Voters Project, which seeks to understand how information provision affects voting preferences in Delhi slums and middle-class areas.
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July 2020 Newsletter

J-PAL announces the launch of J-PAL Middle East and North Africa, its newest regional research center, and reaches a major milestone: over 1,000 evaluations across 84 countries.
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June 2020 Newsletter

J-PAL stands in solidarity with Black communities.
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May 2020 Newsletter

Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken write about expanding social protection amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer during their Nobel Prize keynote talks
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December 2019 Newsletter

J-PAL's December 2019 newsletter celebrates Nobel laureates, J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and longtime J-PAL affiliate Michael Kremer, welcomes twelve new affiliate professors, and discusses European Social Inclusion Initiative's first round of grant funding.
Nobel laureates Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo, and Abhijit Banerjee on the Nobel stage in Stockholm
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January 2020 Newsletter

J-PAL's January 2020 newsletter looks back at J-PAL's accomplishments, including launching new initiatives, growing the online MicroMasters program, and J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and longtime affiliate Michael Kremer being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Cash and Microenterprise Support for the Ultra-Poor in Uganda

In partnership with the Association of Volunteers in International Service, researchers evaluated the impact of the Women’s Income Generating Support (WINGS) program, an initiative which provided low-income Ugandan individuals, mainly women, with financial grants, business skills training, and ongoing supervision on individuals’ economic outcomes. The WINGS program improved individuals’ earnings and access to nonfarm business opportunities in postwar Uganda.
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Heather McCurdy

Heather McCurdy joined J-PAL in 2011 to provide human subjects administration and support for Esther Duflo and the Global office. Heather spent five years in economic consulting support in Boston but previously spent two years in Mali with the Peace Corps.
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Digital IDs: The good, the bad, and the unknown

As policymakers across Africa are increasingly investing in digital identification systems, the Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI) explores what the benefits, challenges, and unknowns are.
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Gabriel Cruz

Gabriel Cruz is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL LAC, where he works on several projects related to understanding the effects of public policies on education, pensions, among other topics lead by Prof. Claudia Allende (Stanford University).
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Lauren Roode

Lauren is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Africa where she works with affiliates, policymakers and practitioners to further the J-PAL agenda of using evidence to inform policy.
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Thomas Ferreira

Thomas Ferreira is a Senior Data Associate at J-PAL Africa working on the Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) Initiative.