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Researcher Spotlight: Gautam Rao on co-producing evidence with policymakers
In this episode of the Researcher Spotlight Series, host Sambhav Choudhury speaks with Gautam Rao, associate professor of economics at UC Berkeley. From his unconventional journey from electronics engineering to economics, Gautam shares insights on his behavioral economics and mental health research...
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Malik Abaddi
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Sam Carter
Sam is the Senior AI Policy Manager at J-PAL, where she leads efforts to use insights from existing evidence to maximize the social impact of artificial intelligence, and to generate new evidence on the impacts and unintended consequences of AI tools. Prior to joining J-PAL in 2025, Sam was a Senior...
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Ketki Girish Moghe
Ketki Moghe is a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, currently working on the Remote Tutoring: Ganita Ganaka project in Bengaluru, India.
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Khushi Singh
Khushi is a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL South Asia, working with the Environment, Energy, and Climate Change sector within the Policy, Training, and Communications vertical.
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Talia Bernhardt
Talia Bernhardt is a Research Associate at J-PAL Africa where she evaluates interventions to reduce unemployment and is currently working on a study titled "Can Matching on Soft Skills Using Phone-based Recruitment Yield Better Firm-Worker Matches?".
Evaluation
Improving Student Learning through Classroom Technology Adoption in Pakistan
Researchers partnered with the Government of Pakistan to conduct two parallel randomized evaluations to test the impact of providing supplemental teaching materials on the quality of student learning and teachers’ effectiveness. Overall, the eLearn Classroom intervention improved student achievement and students’ attendance for grade 8 students. Conversely, providing grade 6 students with individual eLearn Tablets worsened their test scores.
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The Impact of Targeted Teaching on Secondary School Learning Outcomes in India
Researchers evaluated a secondary school readiness program, Utkarsh, that provided targeted instruction to students in Odisha, India.
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Introduction to randomized evaluations
This resource gives an overview and non-technical introduction to randomized evaluations. Randomized evaluations can be used to measure impact in policy research: to date, J-PAL affiliated researchers have conducted more than 1,100 randomized evaluations studying policies in ten thematic sectors in...