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Alumni Voices: The first draft of emissions trading in India
Yuanjian Carla Li (former Senior Research Associate, 2010-12) and Arun Singh (former Research Associate, 2013-15) were among the first few research staff members at J-PAL South Asia who helped spur conversations around emissions trading in India.
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Economics of Decarbonization Working Group Inaugural Convening
J-PAL North America's Environment, Energy, and Climate Change (EECC) team is launching a series of researcher convenings with the goal of coordinating the efforts of researchers to develop an evidence base (experimental and non-experimental) that will inform carbon mitigation efforts in the United...
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Tanmay Bansal
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The LA Homelessness Evaluation Network: Supporting service providers in their efforts to generate and use evidence
J-PAL North America is partnering with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to offer LA-based homeless service providers a supportive “community of practice” around rigorous research. Through this effort, we aim to bolster organizations’ ability to generate and use evidence to inform decision-making as...
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J-PAL North America and Results for America launch support for state and local leaders to evaluate programs using federal recovery dollars
As state and local leaders leverage federal relief funding to invest in their communities, a new program will support these governments in using data, evaluation, and evidence to advance effective and equitable government programming for generations to come.
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Summer School: Development Methodologies
In partnership with the French Development Agency, the French Fund for Innovation in Development, and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, J-PAL is hosting a summer training course in Rabat, Morocco for African researchers with a demonstrated interest in conducting impact evaluations.
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The Impact of Teaching Teachers to Use Computer Assisted Learning on Student Math Performance in the United States
Researchers conducted two randomized evaluations to test the impact of coaching teachers on integrating CAL in their elementary and middle school mathematics instruction in two large, diverse school districts in the United States. The intervention led to improved math performance in one evaluation and mixed results in the other, with test-score gains observed in classrooms with higher weekly CAL practice time.
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Catherine Michaud-Leclerc
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Catherine Michaud-Leclerc
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Adam Baybutt
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In their own words: Female officers on the front lines of gender-targeted police reforms
J-PAL affiliated professor Sandip Sukhtankar (University of Virginia) and co-authors, in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh Police Research and Training Department, conducted a randomised evaluation to test the impact of gender-targeted police reforms in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India.
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BAE Incubator partner series, part five: Seeking systems-level change to address housing instability
Homelessness in the United States is a pressing issue that requires increased research on effective strategies to address it and foster long-term housing stability. With grant funding from Google.org — Google’s philanthropic arm—the Bay Area Evaluation (BAE) Incubator supported Bay Area service...
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