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About J-PAL North America
J-PAL North America is a regional office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a global network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty. Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by...
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Imane Fahli
Imane Fahli is a Policy Manager at the Morocco Employment Lab where she works with organizations to inform their policies and programs and support them in developing evaluation projects.
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Contact J-PAL South Asia
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Policy Outreach at J-PAL Africa
The J-PAL Africa policy team works with governments, researchers, and NGOs to increase evidence use by bridging the gap between rigorous research and action in sub-Saharan Africa to improve lives at scale. Based in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, our policy staff work across the continent...
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Contact J-PAL Africa
J-PAL Africa was established in August 2010 at the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. J-PAL Africa has a satellite office in Johannesburg.
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DEDP MicroMasters Program
J-PAL and MIT Open Learning created the MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) to equip learners with the knowledge and skills to generate and use data in program evaluation and policymaking through flexible, online, and affordable graduate-level courses.
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Measurement and Survey Design
In this course, participants learn what information is needed to answer their policy or research questions, how to design good survey instruments, how to pilot and refine a survey, and how to develop field protocols.
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Evaluating Social Programs
J-PAL's Evaluating Social Programs course equips participants with the tools to rigorously assess the impact of programs and policies using randomized evaluations.
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Leveraging Evaluation and Evidence for Equitable Recovery (LEVER) Evaluation Incubator
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Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
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Caitlin Tulloch, J-PAL ‘13, on innovation in cost-effectiveness analyses and building effective policy partnerships
Caitlin Tulloch joined J-PAL Global in 2009, where she played a central role in building the infrastructure for our policy efforts, establishing our approach to cost-effectiveness analysis, and building partnerships with policymakers. Now the associate director of Best Use of Resources at the...
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Luc Behaghel
Luc Behaghel is a Chaired Professor at the Paris School of Economics, Researcher and Director of Research at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), IZA Research Fellow, Co-Director of CEPREMAP's Labor program, and a CREST Affiliate.
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Combining In-School and Out-of-School Programs to Improve Learning in India
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of the combination of an in-school learning program with an out-of-school learning program on primary school math and reading levels. The combination of the two programs led to a significant increase in children's test scores in both math and language.
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Policy Insights in Agriculture
J-PAL’s Agriculture sector focuses on improving agricultural systems in developing countries. Our policy insights below summarize general lessons from randomized evaluations on topics including increasing small-scale farmers' access to markets, building resilience to climate change, protecting...
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Policy Insights in Crime, Violence, and Conflict
J-PAL’s Crime, Violence, and Conflict sector focuses on promoting safe communities and designing effective policies to manage and reduce violence and conflict. The policy insights below summarize lessons from randomized evaluations on the impact of economic interventions to reduce intimate partner...