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Letter from the Global Executive Director: J-PAL's response to COVID-19
J-PAL Global Executive Director Iqbal Dhaliwal outlines the actions J-PAL is taking to slow the spread of COVID-19 and ensure the safety of our staff.
Evaluation
Providing Job Search Information to Improve Job Seekers' Employment and Earnings in Germany
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing recently unemployed individuals informational brochures about job search strategies that motivated an active search on their labor market outcomes. Providing informational brochures improved the employment and earnings of job seekers who exhibited an increased risk of long-term unemployment but had no measurable effects on the general population.
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Increasing response rates of mail surveys and mailings
Drawing on evidence and examples from literature on mail experiments and mail surveys, this resource suggests strategies for increasing responses to mail surveys and mailings targeted at a fixed pool of respondents in a randomized evaluation. We do not address tradeoffs between mailings versus other...
Evaluation
Providing Life Skills Training and Mentoring To Reduce School Dropout Among Girls in India
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of life skills training and mentoring on dropout rates and non-cognitive skills among girls in India. Their evidence suggests that the intervention is successful in developing stronger life skills including increased agency, more equitable gender norms, and stronger socio-emotional support.
Evaluation
Improving local tax collection through technology in Ghana
In partnership with Melchia Investments, a private Ghanaian technology company, researchers are conducting a pilot randomized evaluation to identify the effectiveness of a new tax collection technology in increasing property tax revenues for local governments.
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Bruce Sacerdote
Bruce Sacerdote is the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics at Dartmouth College. His research examines the impact of education on income, health, and well-being; the effect of relocation after Hurricane Katrina on students’ educational outcomes; why there are fertility differences across...
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Closing the Covid trust deficit
Economists have developed an emerging body of evidence that holds important lessons for overcoming COVID-19 information constraints, combating misinformation, and building trust in health systems. These insights may also help to improve delivery and increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccines. This op-ed...
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Chris Blattman
Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago, in the Harris School of Public Policy, as well as a research associate at NBER. He studies why some people and societies are poor, violent and unequal, and what (if anything) aid or...
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Eric Bettinger
Eric Bettinger is the Conley DeAngelis Family Professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He is the Director of the Center for Educational Policy Analysis and the Director at the Lemann Center for Brazilian Education at Stanford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Joseph Doyle
Joseph Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Chair of J-PAL's Health sector.
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Judd Kessler
Judd Kessler is a Howard Marks Professor at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He investigates the economic and psychological forces that motivate individuals to contribute to public goods inside and outside the workplace, with applications including organ donation, worker effort...
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Nick Ryan
Nick Ryan is an Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University and Co-Chair of the Evidence to Scale Initiative.He studies energy markets and environmental regulation in developing countries. Energy use enables high standards of living, but rapid, energy-intensive growth has caused many...
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Rema Hanna
Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South East Asia Studies and a Co-Director of the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) research program at the Center for International Development, Harvard University. In addition, she’s the Scientific Director for Southeast Asia at the Abdul Latif Jameel...
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Tantangan dan pembelajaran untuk memperkuat jaringan agen perbankan laku pandai di Indonesia
Jaringan Agen Layanan Keuangan Tanpa Kantor dalam Rangka Keuangan Inklusif (Laku Pandai) diluncurkan pada tahun 2014 dengan misi mengakselerasi inklusi keuangan di Indonesia. Jaringan agen ini menjadi perpanjangan tangan bank untuk memberikan layanan keuangan pada masyarakat yang tinggal di daerah...
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Mariam George
Mariam George is a Research Coordinator at J-PAL Middle East and North Africa, where she is currently working on impact assessment of the Ultra Poor Graduation Program developed by BRAC in collaboration with Sawiris Foundation for Social Development in Egypt and Training NGO’s at the Irregular...