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Initiative
Post-Primary Education Initiative (PPE)
J-PAL’s Post-Primary Education (PPE) Initiative funds randomized evaluations that develop and test innovative solutions for improving access, quality, equity, and relevance of post-primary education in low- and middle-income countries.
Person
Esther Ekoh
Esther Ekoh is a Senior HR Manager at J-PAL South Asia, where she leads strategic people initiatives that support organizational effectiveness, inclusive culture-building, and long-term growth
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Ziwei Hu
Ziwei Hu is an IT Associate at J-PAL, where she blends her technical expertise with strong administrative experience to support the organization's technology infrastructure and systems.
Evidence to Policy Case Study
Case study
Encouraging Covid-19 preventive behaviors via celebrity messages
At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, J-PAL affiliated researchers used evidence from Indonesia to support the state government of West Bengal, India in designing a public health campaign that reached over 32 million people.
Person
Alexandra Eurdolian
Alexandra leads J-PAL’s external communications, overseeing strategic planning, editorial content, message guidance, digital and social media, and email marketing.
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Olga Remesha
Olga Remesha is a Senior Finance & Operations Associate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Global, having joined in March 2026.
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Iqbal Dhaliwal
Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal is the Global Executive Director of J-PAL since January 2018. He works with the Board of Directors to develop the organization’s strategic vision, and with the leadership of the seven regional offices to coordinate J-PAL’s worldwide research, policy outreach, capacity building...
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Jimena Ruiz Castro
Jimena Ruiz Castro is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Global on the Education sector team, where she helps manage the Learning for All Initiative, an initiative focused on improving learning outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries through evidence-informed policy and research.
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Emma Stroupe
Emma Stroupe is a Policy and Communications Associate at J-PAL Global. As a member of the Policy and Communications team, she focuses on global strategic communication across sectors and regional offices to promote evidence-informed policymaking.
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Dana Charles McCoy
Evaluation
Digital Payments to Encourage the Use of Technology and Enable Secure, Efficient Transactions in Senegal's Informal Taxi Sector
Researchers introduced a digital payment system in Senegal's informal taxi sector to investigate how digital payments affected drivers' cash-handling costs and how allowing employers different levels of access to drivers' transactions affected driver effort, employment contracts, and the use of digital payments. Digital payments substantially reduced drivers' cash-handling costs—cutting frictions like time spent seeking small change and lost customers by about half—and drivers valued the technology highly. When transactions were also visible to owners, contracts strengthened: drivers worked harder, defaults fell, and turnover declined. But this added transparency deterred lower-income and lower-performing drivers from adopting in the first place.
Evaluation
Scaling Personalized Adaptive Learning (PAL) for Math and Language in India
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a personalized adaptive learning software integrated into public school schedules on student learning outcomes in Rajasthan, India. After 18 months, students in schools that received the intervention scored higher in math and Hindi relative to students in comparison schools.