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Saleena Son
Saleena Son is the Human Resources Associate at J-PAL Global where she provides support to the HR Manager and assists with recruitment, on-boarding and off-boarding processes.
Evidence to Policy Case Study
Case study
Designing a social protection program during Covid-19
J-PAL affiliated researchers supported the Government of Chile in designing a cash transfer program during the Covid-19 pandemic, which reached almost 3 million households.
Event
Impact Evaluation of the Transition from Rastra to BPNT: Preliminary Findings
Indonesia is in the process of transforming a social assistance program reaching more than 15 million beneficiaries. J-PAL affiliated researchers, in collaboration with the Government of Indonesia, conducted a randomized evaluation to aid this transition and measure the program’s impact. Join us to...
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Álvaro Carril
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Olawunmi Ola-Busari
Olawunmi Ola-Busari is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Africa where she supports scoping for scale-ups, helps prepare policy dissemination presentations and memo, and supports policy training and events.
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Julia Chabrier
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Michael Greenstone
Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. The focus of his research is on estimating the costs and benefits of environmental quality.
Research resource
Using administrative data for randomized evaluations
Administrative data is information collected, used, and stored primarily for administrative (i.e., operational), rather than research, purposes. These data can be an excellent source of information for use in research and impact evaluation. This document provides practical guidance on how to obtain...
Blog
Growth is not enough
With an abundance of important and sometimes surprising findings from studies of socioeconomic interventions in recent decades, it is clear that development in the absence of evidence-based policymaking is a fool's errand. The small details matter as much as—and sometimes more than—the economic big...
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Gabriela Jorquera
Gabriela Jorquera is a Survey Associate at J-PAL where she works on designing and implementing the pilot phase of a project that encourages savings. Prior to joining J-PAL in 2014, she worked at Fiscalía Nacional Económica. Gabriela holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Universidad de Chile.
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Aarathi Ajay Thomas
Aarathi Thomas is the HR Manager at J-PAL South Asia where she is primarily responsible for planning, designing and strengthening key HR activities and processes with a focus on staff development.
Event
Evaluating Social Programs IRC - Jordan Webinar Series
Join us each week from 3:00-4:30pm EEST (8:00-9:30am EDT) for this webinar training series on Evaluating Social Programs. Over the course of four weeks, these webinars will provide an introduction to why and how randomized evaluations can be used to rigorously measure social impact. The sessions...
Evaluation
Safe Cities: Improving the Citizen-Police Interface in Pakistan
Researchers partnered with the Punjab Safe Cities Authority to evaluate how to improve citizen’s access to and experience with police services.
Evaluation
Impact of Recruiting Services on Firms' Job Postings and Hiring in France
Researchers in France studied whether government-provided recruiting services would impact firms’ job postings and hiring by lowering recruiting costs. The recruiting services decreased firms’ hiring costs and increased firms’ job postings and hiring, including much sought-after permanent-contract hires.
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HCDI at 8: Building on Eight Years of Randomized Evaluations to Improve Health Care Delivery
Since 2013, the US Health Care Delivery Initiative has supported randomized evaluations of strategies that aim to make health care delivery in the United States more efficient, effective, and equitable. Over the last eight years, HCDI has collaborated with academics from various disciplines, health...