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Affiliate Spotlight: Raquel Bernal on early childhood education and the importance of lifelong learning
Raquel Bernal is Professor of Economics and President of Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. In this Affiliate Spotlight, she shares more about her path to development economics and her research on early childhood education.
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Inés Torres Rojas
Evaluation
Gender-specific managerial training program and firm productivity in Colombia
Researchers are evaluating the impact of providing a gender-specific managerial training program on career advancement prospects for women and workplace productivity.
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Antara Keswani
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Sara Ameziane Hassani
Sara Ameziane Hassani is a Policy Associate at the Morocco Innovation and Evaluation Lab (MEL), where she works with organizations and policymakers to strengthen the use of evidence in the education sector.
Policy insight
Using simple reminders to reduce failures to appear in court
Failing to appear—when people awaiting arraignment fail to appear in court—is criminalized in 46 US states and can result in jail time. Evidence from randomized evaluations suggests that simple reminders through text messages, mail, or phone calls can be effective in reducing the rate at which...
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J-PAL Updates
WFP and MIT's Poverty Action Lab join forces to develop innovative solutions to food security, nutrition, and resilience challenges
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop innovative solutions that help build a more resilient and food secure future for...
Event
DEDP Webinar: Pursue a credential in the MITx MicroMasters® Program
Join us for a 60-minute webinar about the MicroMasters® program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) to learn more about the program and ask questions in a live Q&A session!
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Hend Ramzy
Event
Promoviendo el Desarrollo Infantil Temprano en Guatemala: ¿Cómo participar en el programa PROSA?
Este webinar gratuito explicará en detalle en qué consiste PROSA, el nuevo programa de J-PAL y UVG que busca catalizar el uso y generación de evidencia en torno al Desarrollo Infantil Temprano en Guatemala.
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Margaret Dennis
Evaluation
Increasing Financial Aspirations to Improve Financial Decision-Making and Outcomes in the Philippines
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test whether encouraging entrepreneurs to raise their aspirations helped them improve their financial decisions and outcomes. The aspirations training led individuals to set higher savings goals, but most participants failed to achieve their goals.
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A practical framework for evidence-informed policy: Addressing the generalizability puzzle
In recent decades, there has been a huge increase in the number of impact evaluations of different approaches to reducing poverty. Despite this, if you are a policymaker, it is unlikely that there will be a rigorous impact evaluation that answers precisely the question you are facing in precisely...
Evidence to Policy Case Study
Case study
Information and mediation to improve labor courts
The Government of Mexico used insights from a randomized evaluation to inform a national labor law.