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Evaluation

Educational Returns of Boarding Schools for Underserved Secondary School Children in France

Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of boarding schools on educational outcomes and well-being for children with disadvantaged backgrounds in France. The top third of students admitted to France’s first “boarding school of excellence” had large improvements in math scores after two years, but there were no impacts on French skills for any of the students.
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Gabriel Mendes Bergamaschi

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Resource

UJALA African Scholars Program

The UJALA African Scholars Program supports African scholars to lead rigorous, policy-relevant impact evaluations in agriculture across the globe. Despite growing interest in evidence-based policymaking, many scholars face barriers to accessing the resources and support needed to lead high-quality...
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Marianne Bertrand

Marianne Bertrand is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She is an applied microeconomist whose research covers the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, political economy, and development economics.
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Mario Luis Small

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

Partnership for AI Evidence (PAIE)

Partnership for 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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Eleanor (Ellie) Lewis

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Urmi Paranjpye

Urmi Paranjpye is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where they work on projects focused on skilling and employment opportunities for rural-to-urban migrant women. Prior to joining J-PAL, they were a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) at Ashoka...
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Crystal Yang

Crystal Yang is the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where she is Co-Director of the Crime Working Group. Her current research includes empirical projects on racial bias in the criminal...
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Blog

Beyond easy metrics: Evaluating what matters for women entrepreneurs

Tanvi Jaluka shares how she and her team at CARE conducted qualitative research as part of a baseline survey for Strive Women program in Peru, Pakistan, and Vietnam.
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Stefano DellaVigna

Stefano DellaVigna is the Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Lena Song

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Maria Zhu

Two women bent over tending to their crops in an agricultural field in sub-Saharan Africa
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UM6P-J-PAL Agricultural Lab for Africa (UJALA)

The UM6P-J-PAL Agricultural Lab for Africa (UJALA) aims to generate rigorous, policy-relevant evidence to answer critical questions around small-scale agriculture and food security in Africa.
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Evaluation

Eliminating Behavioral Barriers to Saving through a Tablet App for the Base of the Pyramid in Paraguay

Researchers are partnering with a financial institution in Paraguay to evaluate the impact of a range of tablet-based applications, which remind people to save and help them make savings goals, on savings behavior of low-income individuals.