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Adopting Payment For Ecosystem Services at Scale
Ecosystem services are the benefits humans derive from nature, essential for sustaining life and well-being on the planet. These services encompass a wide range of functions, including the provision of food, water, carbon, soil and temperature regulation. Additionally, ecosystems offer cultural...
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Using Mobile Phone and Satellite Data to Target Togo's Emergency Cash Transfer Program
Researchers developed, implemented, and evaluated an approach to targeting social assistance in Togo based on machine learning algorithms and data from satellites and mobile phone networks to reach the most vulnerable in need of support during the Covid-19 pandemic. They found that the machine...
Evaluation
The Impact of Correcting Men's Misperceptions of Beliefs about Gender: Implications for Female Labor Participation and Time Use in India
In India, researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the effects of providing men with correct information about other men’s views of women’s labor market participation.
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Sangeeta Mukherjee
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Dakshta Ahlawat
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Sushant Pawar
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Himansu Kumar Nayak
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Haley Packard
Haley Packard is a Senior Initiatives Associate at J-PAL North America. As a member of the Finance and Operations team, she develops, coordinates, and manages project implementation and knowledge management activities for J-PAL North America’s Initiatives and Funded Projects.
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Lorenzo Casaburi
Lorenzo Casaburi is the UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Zurich. His research in development economics focuses on agricultural markets and state capacity.
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Rebecca Thornton
Rebecca Thornton is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on health, education, and gender. Across these topics, her work addresses core issues within economics, including the role of subjective beliefs in decision-making and how social...
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Emily Breza
Emily Breza is the Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University Department of Economics and Co-Chair of J-PAL's Finance sector. Her research focuses on development economics and household finance.
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India’s nutrition landscape and the path forward
Over the last few years, India has made sizable investments in improving child nutrition through government programs like the Poshan Abhiyaan, the Government of India’s flagship scheme to tackle malnutrition in children, and the ongoing work of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the...
Evaluation
What is the Impact of Housing Microfinance and Construction Quality Support? A Rigorous Impact Evaluation
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing microloans for housing to the underprivileged in the Menia governorate on the improvement of families' well-being.
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Building research partnerships to address the opioid crisis in Minnesota, part two
Mireille Jacobson (University of Southern California), Weston Merrick (Minnesota Management and Budget or MMB), and Adam Sacarny (Columbia University) sit down with J-PAL staff to discuss the results of their randomized evaluation assessing how various letters affected physicians’ use of Minnesota’s...
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Developing capacities for the generation and use of evidence in the promotion of women's agency in Central America
Organizations in Central America increasingly recognize the importance of improving women’s agency by implementing programs and initiatives to support this goal. As part of J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) efforts to strengthen capacities and share evidence, in January 2023, we started...