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The Impact of Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn on Student Outcomes in Uganda

Researchers, in partnership with Kimanya Ngeyo Foundation for Science and Education in Uganda, evaluated the impact of a program that trained teachers to learn like scientists: posing questions, framing hypotheses, and using real-world experience wherever possible. Researchers found positive impacts on classroom dynamics, teacher pedagogy, student learning, and creativity, with impacts on student learning sustained for four years.
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Update

Gujarat, India plans cap-and-trade market for carbon emissions

The market will be the first of its kind among emerging economies, outside of China. Leading researchers from the University of Chicago, Yale, and J-PAL will help design the program, allowing Gujarat to tap global expertise.
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Event

J-PAL LAC/UC Chile: Diplomado en Evaluación de Impacto de Programas y Políticas Públicas

Este Diplomado tiene por objetivo dotar de los conocimientos necesarios para diseñar, implementar y ser contraparte de evaluaciones de impacto de programas sociales y políticas públicas. Al finalizar el diplomado, los y las estudiantes serán capaces de utilizar una metodología rigurosa cuya...
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Policy insight

Improving health worker performance through pay-for-performance programs

Pay-for-performance incentive programs for health care workers reward providers based on measurable performance indicators. Providing performance-based pay in addition to base pay can help to improve health provider performance on well-chosen targeted indicators relative to providing only base pay.
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Update

Randomized controlled trial finds women’s help desks in local police stations in India increased registration of cases of gender-based violence; scale-up in progress

A randomized control trial by J-PAL affiliate Sandip Sukhtankar and co-authors Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner and Akshay Mangla found that police help desks that were staffed by women registered more domestic incidence reports than those without. The findings are significant given the high rates of gender...
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Update

July 2022 Newsletter

In the July newsletter, we discuss how to use J-PAL's Dataverse, the lessons that can be learned from a math achievement program in Puerto Rico, and feature an affiliate spotlight of Sandip Sukhtankar.
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Policy insight

Improving tax compliance through reminder messages for taxpayers

Sending tax reminder messages to taxpayers is a cost-effective strategy to increase short-term tax compliance. Governments looking to improve tax compliance should invest in sending simple deterrence-framed messages to taxpayers.
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Policy insight

Increasing routine child immunization coverage in low- and middle-income countries

Interventions that strengthen the delivery of vaccines and those that increase demand for vaccination are imperative to increasing child immunization coverage. Improved delivery can be achieved by ensuring vaccines are reliably and locally available and strengthening health worker performance, while...
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Blog

Evidence on soft skills and women’s labor market outcomes

Worldwide, nearly 7 percent of employed people live below the extreme poverty line (US$1.90 purchasing power parity per day). In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), about 147 million people were underemployed based on the number of hours they worked in 2019. Skills and vocational training...
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Policy insight

The impacts of economic interventions on intimate partner violence

An estimated one in every three women worldwide has suffered physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime. Achieving gender equality and eliminating violence against women are major global development goals. One popular strategy to reduce IPV is to increase women’s access to...
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Blog

Broadening participation in economics, part four: Mentorship program development considerations

In the final post of our four-part series on the collaborations that shape the Economics Transformation Project, J-PAL staff summarize the design of several mentorship programs in economics and discuss next steps for ETP.
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Blog

Transparent and accessible data: J-PAL alumna collaborated on an innovative approach with the Chilean government and researchers

Transparent and accessible data can be vital for researchers in the development of evidence-informed policies. In Chile, the State opened a door for researchers to access local transparent data to work together to answer key questions. Amanda Dawes, a J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean alumna...
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Policy insight

Encouraging micro and small enterprises to formalize

Informal firms are defined as those that operate outside of the legal and regulatory system and are therefore not registered for the required business operating licenses. Operating formally may allow firms to grow by expanding their customer base, paying fewer fines, and gaining access to more...
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