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Using Mixed Methods to Unpack the Black Box of a Social Accountability RCT: Early Findings from the Transparency for Development (T4D) Project in Indonesia
Can communities play a role in strengthening service delivery? Does empowering citizens to engage in transparency and accountability activities lead to improvement in health outcomes? Join T4D researchers Dan Levy and Jessica Creighton on August 1 to learn more about this project.
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Coming apart? Lives of the rich and poor over time in the United States
Income inequality in the United States has increased consistently since the 1980s, but has this growing economic gap led to larger cultural distances between socioeconomic groups? Join us today, Thursday, September 28 at 3 pm EDT for the next D²P²: Data, Decisions, Public Policy lecture featuring J...
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Oriana Bandiera
Oriana Bandiera is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and editor for Microeconomic Insights.
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Teaching at the Right Level Webinar Series: Session 2 - Assessment
Please join us on October 27 for the second in a series of webinars about Pratham’s teaching at the right level (TaRL), a methodology that has been shown, through rigorous evaluations, to consistently improve basic reading and numeracy skills. This session will focus on Assessment, with...
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Jack Ellington
Jack Ellington is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where he works with the Environment, Energy, and Climate Change (E2C2) sector.
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Anuja Venkatachalam
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Leigh Linden
Leigh Linden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin with a joint appointment in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. His research focuses on the ability of social services to improve the well being of children, especially in...
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De-biasing Over-Optimism about Covid-19 Risks to Limit Vulnerable Individuals' Risky Behavior in India
Researchers are evaluating the impact of providing different types of information about the health risks of Covid-19 on individuals’ risky behavior among diabetic and hypertensive individuals in Tamil Nadu, India, with special attention to de-biasing over-optimism about personal health risk.
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The Data, Economics, and Development Policy master’s: Learning and connecting at MIT during Covid-19
We welcomed the second cohort of the Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) master’s program to campus in January. The students will earn their master’s degree in just eight months under a hybrid online and in-person model that allows the cohort to build community at MIT while accommodating...
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Alejandro Campos Gutiérrez
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J-PAL/MIT Evaluating Social Programs Course, 2021
Held live over Zoom, this four-day training will equip participants with the resources and knowledge to engage with impact evaluations of social programs. The interactive course provides an in-depth look at why and when randomized evaluations can be used to rigorously measure social impact, methods...