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AI for social good: Supporting workers and businesses in LMICs
Researchers in the J-PAL network have been using randomized evaluations to learn how to help people get jobs and how to help businesses grow for over two decades, drawing out insights to inform policies and programs from Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and beyond . Researchers have also started testing...
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Cost-Effectiveness and Welfare Analysis
J-PAL’s cost-effectiveness and welfare analysis team helps policymakers incorporate practical cost considerations when seeking to act on rigorous evidence.
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Cost-effectiveness for informed decision-making
For good policies and programs to be implemented, funders and policymakers need to know the impacts that their different options have on the outcomes they are targeting. (Throughout this blog, we will refer to policymakers, taking this term to include funders too.)
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Drama and Doctrine: Lessons from an Edutainment Experiment in Egypt
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Gargi Pal
Gargi Pal leads the Air and Water labs initiative at J-PAL South Asia (SARWA) and the Energy, Environment, and Climate Change sector. She provides strategic oversight to SARWA's embedded impact labs, stewards J-PAL South Asia's research and policy agenda in the sector, and works closely with key...
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Robyn Meeks
Robyn Meeks is an Assistant Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Her research is at the intersection of environmental and development economics with much of her work focusing on understanding individual, household, and firm responses to the introduction of various...
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Closing gender gaps in agriculture: Insights from the CGIAR conference in Cape Town
In October 2025, Cape Town hosted the CGIAR Gender in Food, Land, and Water Systems Conference, bringing together researchers, policymakers, and donors to chart actions for closing gender gaps in agriculture. J-PAL staff attended and presented in one of the key plenaries over the three days.
Initiative
Jobs and Opportunity Initiative Brazil (JOI Brazil)
JOI Brazil is a J-PAL initiative that seeks to generate scientific evidence on public policies related to pressing challenges in the Brazilian labor market.
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Bruno Ferman
Bruno Ferman is a Professor at the São Paulo School of Economics (FGV EESP). His research focuses on behavioral economics and finance, on themes including microcredit product design and the ways in which financial incentives can influence or reveal behavior preferences.
Evaluation
Deterring Drunk Driving in India
To investigate which strategies are most effective at preventing drunk driving and reducing traffic accidents, researchers partnered with the Rajasthan Police in India to evaluate an anti-drunk driving program using sobriety testing checkpoints. Overall, the anti-drunk driving program was effective in reducing traffic deaths and accidents, with these reductions driven entirely by police stations that implemented surprise checkpoints.
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Victoria Moura
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A Practical Guide to Measuring Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in Impact Evaluations
Policymakers and practitioners around the world are increasingly interested in supporting women's and girls’ empowerment, and many researchers are grappling with how best to measure empowerment in impact evaluations.
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Gender
Gender norms and biases continue to constrain human potential around the world. J-PAL’s Gender sector produces cross-cutting insights on promoting gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment, and on how norms related to gender affect the outcomes of social programs.
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Oeindrila Dube
Oeindrila Dube is the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. She studies poverty and conflict in the developing world.