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J-PAL LAC traz a Iniciativa de Empregos e Oportunidades ao Brasil
A crise da Covid-19 exacerba os desafios do mercado de trabalho no Brasil. Mais do que nunca, precisamos desenvolver soluções de política pública efetivas e baseadas em evidências. Em parceria com a Fundação Arymax, a B3 Social, a Potencia Ventures e o Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, o J...
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Covid-19 Response at J-PAL Southeast Asia
J-PAL Southeast Asia is providing timely evidence to support policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia.
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Abdelouahed Eloufir
Abdelouahed joined the Morocco Employment Lab as a Research Associate in 2021. He works on impact evaluations examining labor market and education programs, collaborating with public sector partners to assess related policies.
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Abbas EL AKARI
Abbas El Akari is a research associate at the Morocco employment lab, he works on implementing a randomized evaluation of demand driven job trainings and on the job support programs in Morocco.
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Resources for conducting remote surveys
As with in-person surveys, remote survey work involves considerations at every stage of the project lifecycle. This page summarizes key points regarding remote surveys and, where applicable, lists J-PAL’s related public resources, in which more detailed guidance can be found. In restricting the...
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Innovation, Data and Experiments in Education (IDEE)
The Innovation, Data and Experiments in Education (IDEE) programme helps education researchers produce actionable evidence in France by facilitating access to administrative data, providing research resources and measurement tools, and structuring partnerships with policy-makers and practitioners.
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Vanessa Cheng
Vanessa is Research Associate at J-PAL LAC and she works on a project with the Ministry of Economy of Peru to identify innovation opportunities to improve the system and the management of human resources of public officials at the national, regional and local levels.
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Breaking the glass ceiling in economics and policy, one conversation at a time
Read our interview with Prerna Kundu and Prashansa Srivastava, Co-Founders of Women in Economics and Policy, and Research Associates at J-PAL South Asia.
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Responses to Economic and Security Risks During Covid-19 in Lagos, Nigeria
Researchers studied the economic, social, and security impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on informal market vendors in Lagos, Nigeria through a phone survey. Nearly half of respondents reported that their marketplaces were closed entirely, and only 1.5 percent of respondents reported that their...
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Register for the Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19 webinar
Register for the Covid Dialogues: Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19 webinar on June 8, 2021.
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Using Phone Surveys to Improve Public Service Delivery and Guide Crisis Response
In low- and middle-income countries, regular program monitoring for improving public service delivery and the beneficiary experience is often constrained by slow, indirect processes such as periodic government surveys as well as unrepresentative, sporadic data from government dashboards and...
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Understanding Borrowers' Decisions: Payday Loans in the United States
Researchers partnered with a large payday lender in Indiana to conduct an evaluation to better understand consumers’ decision-making. The results suggest that average borrowers can anticipate their probability of taking loans in the future. However, people focus too much on the present when making decisions about payday loans, a behavior that they would like to change.
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Covid Dialogues: Addressing Education Challenges during Covid-19
This Covid Dialogues webinar will share policy-relevant evidence on online learning, parental engagement, and girls’ education to address education access, quality, and equity challenges resulting from and exacerbated by Covid-19.
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Leveraging behavioral insights to increase savings in low- and middle-income countries
This week, J-PAL published a new Policy Bulletin on the most effective approaches for helping individuals and families in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) build up their savings. The Bulletin reviews twelve randomized evaluations and finds that commitment savings products–voluntary...