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J-PAL Africa Evaluating Social Programs Course, 2021
Held live over Zoom, this five-day training will equip participants with the resources and knowledge to engage with impact evaluations of social programs in Africa.
Project
Scaling up a Program to Boost Immunization Demand in Haryana: A Pilot Study
Researchers conducted surveys with registered caregivers of children in Haryana, India to understand the quality and reliability of data recorded by frontline health workers using the government’s m-health application, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife Online (ANMOL) and the extent of Covid-19-induced...
Blog
Shifting social and gender norms for improved development outcomes: A recap from the Global Evidence for Egypt Spotlight Webinar
While Egypt has made some progress towards gender equality and girls’ and women's empowerment, traditional gender roles and power dynamics continue to persist. Egypt has one of the highest gender gaps in the world, ranking 134th out of 153 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender...
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J-PAL Updates
January 2021 North America Newsletter
J-PAL North America's January newsletter recaps a recent webinar on state and local responses to climate change, highlights new research on how improved Covid-19 messaging can help address racial health disparities, and showcases a new research resources library.
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Alokik Mishra
Event
Mobile Money: Impacts, Challenges and Open Questions
With the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, J-PAL Africa is hosting a practitioner-focused webinar, to highlight the evidence on the impacts of mobile money and digital financial services on poverty, open policy research questions, and challenges that practitioners face in sub-Saharan...
Project
The Effect of the Covid-19 Lockdown on the Academic Ecosystem: Survey of Households and Pre-Primary Facilities in Tamil Nadu
Researchers studied the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown on households with children between the ages of 2-7 years as well as the pre-primary facilities, known as anganwadi centers (AWCs), in which their children are enrolled in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Household phone surveys focused...
Blog
A five-question women’s agency index created using machine learning and qualitative interviews
Women’s agency, or their ability to make and act on their choices for their lives, is an important concept in research and policy related to gender equality. Many policies aim to increase women’s agency, which could be a means for them to improve their health, economic security, and decision-making...
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Ana María Pérez
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Tutoring Pre K-12: Evidence and Resources
In the United States, millions of students are behind grade level—a number that will only continue to grow in the wake of Covid-19. This reality is particularly troubling as once students are behind, it can be very difficult to catch up. These issues disproportionately harm low-income students and...
Blog
Strengthening the Egyptian education system: A recap from the Global Evidence for Egypt spotlight seminar on education
The J-PAL Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Initiative, housed within the American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business, hosted a seminar on “Strengthening the Egyptian Education System to Better Reach Marginalized Children and Youth: What We Can Learn from Randomized Evaluations” at AUC...
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Nicolas Eduardo Larraín
Nicolás Larrain is an economist at J-PAL Latin America-Caribbean, where he works on the savings project “Peso a Peso” as a field supervisor. Prior to joining J-PAL, he taught at the Universidad Mayor, and was also a consultant for The Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Chile.
Research resource
Implementation monitoring
Researchers should monitor the implementation of a program to preserve its integrity of the program and collect additional information that can inform the generalizability of the results of the program. There is a variety of methods available to researchers, such as administrative data, site visits...
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Alice Danon
Alice Danon joined J-PAL Europe as a Research Associate in 2014. She is working on two randomized evaluations taking place in France. The first one aims at estimating the impact of a program seeking to improving students’ achievement by strengthening their non-cognitive skills, and the second one is...
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The role of administrative data in improving social protection programs: A success story from Indonesia
Read about a collaboration between the Government of Indonesia and researchers to use government administrative data to evaluate some of the largest social programs in the country.