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Senior Research Associate - Scaling Every Child Counts in India - J-PAL South Asia

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Shashwat Singh

Shashwat is currently working as a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia on the project "Targeting benefits by profession: Welfare benefits for construction workers," based out of Bhubaneshwar, Odisha.
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Antara Rao Yadavalli

Antara Rao Yadavalli is a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, where she works on the Targeted and Flexible Microfinance project in Tamil Nadu. Her work focuses on expanding access to credit for urban self-employed households, with responsibilities spanning data management and field operations to...
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Sarita Undurraga

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Evidence to Policy Case Study

Interactive curriculum to reshape gender norms

In India, the state governments of Punjab and Odisha are scaling up an evidence-based gender transformative education program in government schools with the NGO Breakthrough, reaching 4 million students across both states by 2026.
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Evidence to Policy Case Study

Giving directly to support poor households

GiveDirectly has expanded its cash transfer program, which was found in a randomized evaluation to have improved economic and psychological well-being in Kenya, to reach over 1.6 million people in Bangladesh, DRC, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and the United States.
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Education

J-PAL’s Education sector uncovers strategies for getting more children in school and learning. The Policy Insights below reflect lessons from randomized evaluations of interventions that boost enrollment and achievement—such as targeted instruction, information provision, health services, and early...

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Policy and Research Associate - J-PAL Global/UJALA Morocco

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Research Associate - Education Policy Reforms in India

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Impact of Recruiting Services on Firms' Job Postings and Hiring in France

Researchers in France studied whether government-provided recruiting services would impact firms’ job postings and hiring by lowering recruiting costs. The recruiting services decreased firms’ hiring costs and increased firms’ job postings and hiring, including much sought-after permanent-contract hires.
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Policy and Research Associate - UM6P-J-PAL Agriculture Lab for Africa (UJALA)

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Evidence to Policy Case Study

Using rigorous impact evaluation to help people find jobs

The French Public Employment Service has incorporated rigorous evidence from randomized evaluations into its decision-making processes to improve employment outcomes of job seekers throughout the country.
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Lowering barriers to contraception use through mass media

An evidence-based family planning campaign delivered via mass media was scaled up across Burkina Faso, reaching 80 percent of the country’s population, and adapted in seven countries in southern and eastern Africa.
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Evidence to Policy Case Study

Tutoring to accelerate learning

Research has shown that high-dosage tutoring helps students catch up. Governments and agencies across the United States are implementing tutoring programs to accelerate learning in the wake of Covid-19.
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Evidence to Policy Case Study

Artificial intelligence to strengthen high school students’ writing skills

The state government of Espírito Santo, Brazil applied research findings to scale an AI education technology that gives public school students feedback on their writing, reaching more than 100,000 high school seniors to date.