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In Colombia, two program participants take a tablet-based financial literacy course as part of a randomized evaluation
Initiative

Project AI Evidence (PAIE)

Project AI Evidence (PAIE) identifies, evaluates, and scales innovative applications of artificial intelligence for social good and in the fight against poverty by bringing together adopters, tech companies, and researchers.
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Blog

An underrated development investment that can double returns: Trail bridges

A program that constructed 97 trail bridges over three years in Rwanda demonstrated a rate of return between 78 to 98 percent while generating valuable lessons for connecting rural populations to land, markets, and essential services.
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Policy insight

Leveraging Mobile Phones for Learning

Mobile phones are a scalable, low-cost platform to improve learning by engaging students, teachers, and parents in hard-to-reach settings.
Sector

Finance

J-PAL’s Finance sector measures the impact of financial services, products, and process innovations, and tries to understand how access to financial services can be used as a mechanism to reduce poverty and spur economic development.

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Finance and Operations Associate - J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean

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Senior Policy and Research Associate - J-PAL Europe

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Research Associate - J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean

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Fernanda Ramirez-Espinoza

Small group of teachers in training activities in Santiago, Chile. July 21, 2017
Blog

Guiding College Students’ AI use Improves Learning: Experimental Evidence from Chile

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has spread through higher education at extraordinary speed. Today, tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot are common study companions for university students worldwide. In Latin America, approximately 92 percent of students...
Three school girls stand with a chalkboard sign that reads "Education."
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.
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Resource

J-PAL LAC: Growing Futures

Growing Futures is the next phase of J-PAL LAC and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG)’s collaboration to generate and use evidence with government, civil society, and academia in Guatemala.
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Anant Nyshadham

Anant Nyshadham is an Associate Professor for Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on enterprise, firm, and worker characteristics and decision-making, particularly in developing countries. He has conducted fieldwork in the United States, Mexico...
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Kazi Sadia

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Sarah Margolis

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Nadia Karina

Nadia Karina is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Southeast Asia.