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J-PAL North America Medicaid Learning Lab
The Medicaid Learning Lab supports Medicaid agency leaders in building capacity to use evidence in their decision-making and, when conditions are right, generate new evidence through structured test-and-learn models.
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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.
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Vincent Quan
Vincent Quan is Director of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation at J-PAL North America. He guides the organization in leveraging partnerships to advance meaningful research collaborations, scale up proven programs, and embed a culture of evidence within policymaking.
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Kalila Jackson-Spieker
Kalila Jackson-Spieker is a Senior Policy Manager at J-PAL North America.
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Nishith Animesh
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AI for social good: An evidence-informed agenda
In addition to questions about AI’s big-picture impacts, pressing questions remain about the effects specific use cases will have on outcomes in the real world. History gives us reason to be careful. Over the past two decades, new technologies launched with great promise often fell short when...
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AI for social good: Making AI work for health systems
AI has the potential to improve access to and quality of health care. However, evidence on the real-world impacts of AI solutions on providers and patients is scarce. Closing these evidence gaps is key to ensuring policymakers can responsibly scale AI that supports healthcare workers and patients.
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Ying Gao
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Vijayalakshmi Iyer
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Rucha Takle
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AI for social good: Helping students learn
AI has the potential to improve student learning and make evidence-informed education programs easier to deliver at scale—but there's a risk it could become another “magic bullet” that fails to improve learning, leaving governments to spend scarce resources on ed tech that sits unused in schools.
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Silvana Yarrington Pacchiano
Silvana Yarrington Pacchiano is an RET Operations Associate at J-PAL Global, where she supports the Education team within the Research, Education, and Training (RET) vertical. In this role, she contributes to the operations of two initiatives: the MITx MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Design of...
Initiative
North America Social Policy Research Initiative (SPRI)
J-PAL North America's Social Policy Research Initiative (SPRI), formerly known as the General Research Initiative, supports randomized impact evaluations of innovative social programs and policies that can provide insights for learning which policies work best and why.
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