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The rise of mobile money in sub-Saharan Africa: Has this digital technology lived up to its promises?
Mobile money has been touted as a revolutionary tool for expanding access to financial services in low resource environments. But does this technology live up to its promises? What are the impacts on the households who use mobile money?
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Alumni Voices: Tracking COVID-19 and the digital economy at the Bank of Canada
Alejandra Bellatin (former Policy Intern, J-PAL LAC ’18) discusses her work at the Bank of Canada gathering high frequency indicators for the economic impact of COVID-19 and her new research regarding the impact of digitalization on the labor market.
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Smart policy design and implementation framework to improve labor markets in Morocco
This second training event led by the Morocco Employment Lab (MEL) aimed at explaining the Smart Policy Design and Implementation (SPDI) framework for rigorous evaluation applied to labor policy in Morocco.
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Antonia Dahuabe
Antonia Dahuabe Osorio is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL LAC, where she works on several projects related to understanding the effects of public policies on education, pharma and pensions, among other topics, taking into account each industry specific frictions as well as families’ and firms’...
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April 2020 Newsletter
In the April newsletter, J-PAL provides recommendations on increasing guideline adherence that can inform policymakers’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative Request for Proposals
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General and Tailored Covid-19 Health Messaging to Minorities in the United States
In the US, recent statistics show that Black and Latinx communities bear a disproportionate burden from Covid-19. Can improved public health messaging ameliorate this situation?
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DigiFI Africa: A pillar of the G7 Partnership for Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa
J-PAL Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI Africa) is honored to be one of the pillars of the G7 Partnership for Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa. Through DigiFI, J-PAL Africa will support gender-specific research to ensure digital innovations promote the...
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African Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Faith Masekesa
Dr. Faith Masekesa joined J-PAL Africa as a postdoctoral research fellow to support our administrative data partnership with the City of Cape Town. Her research interests span development economics, econometrics, experimental and behavioral economics, social protection and social policy.
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African Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Kodjo Aflagah
Dr. Kodjo Aflagah joined the J-PAL Teaching at the Right Level and Digital Identification and Finance Initiative teams, having just completed his PhD in economics at the University of Maryland. His fields of specialization include development economics and applied econometrics, with a particular...
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Affiliate Spotlight: Karthik Muralidharan
Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego and also serves as a J-PAL Board member and co-chair of the Education sector. A pioneering researcher in education and service delivery, Karthik has profoundly influenced social service...
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Achill Rudolph
Achill joined J-PAL in August 2011 and is currently based in Patna, Bihar. He is working on a project to evaluate the health impact of supplying iron-fortified salt to markets in rural Bihar.
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Improving female labor force participation in MENA
Female labor force participation in MENA is the lowest globally. Evidence from recent randomized evaluations conducted in MENA help shed light on some reasons why participation rates are so low and what types of policies could help increase them.
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Reducing labour market information frictions with skill certificates: Evidence from South Africa
Limited information during a firm's hiring decision or a workseeker's search can lead to "information frictions" that may contribute to the high global youth unemployment rate. In a recently published paper, J-PAL affiliated researchers showed how assessing youth workseeker skills in South Africa...