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From research to action: How two Nobel laureates seeded more than just a methodology
An earlier version of this blog was posted in The Week.

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Mind the Gap: Aligning Immigrant Students' Aspirations to Abilities
Offering tutoring and career counseling to high-ability immigrant students closed the educational gap between native-born and immigrant boys in Italy.

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How can the Nobel-winning “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” contribute to research on job creation?
Job creation is an all-time favorite talking point for politicians around the world as economies adapt to new trade patterns and technological innovation causes tectonic shifts in older industries. But how do we actually create more jobs?
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At #NobelWeek, Michael Kremer announces that he, Abhijit Banerjee, and Esther Duflo will contribute their… https://t.co/...
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@NobelPrize This movement has much left to accomplish, and plenty of room to grow. https://t.co/GUKsfdLTId (3/3)
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@NobelPrize … but for a broader movement involving researchers, nonprofit organizations, businesses and governments… https://t.co/...
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2019 @NobelPrize winner Michael Kremer speaking live: As Esther, Abhijit and I have emphasized, this is a prize not… https://t.co/...
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Michael Kremer speaking live from #NobelWeek in Stockholm: Ironically, the very constraints imposed by randomized e… https...
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In September 2019, the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA), led by Bill Gates, Kristalina Georgieva, and Ban Ki-moon, urged global leaders to advance climate adaptation solutions for smallholder...
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In recent decades, we’ve seen enormous growth in the number of program evaluations to measure the impacts of various government policies, NGO programs, and other implementers’ work. Our own...
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In 2014, Benefits Data Trust (BDT) partnered with J-PAL North America staff and affiliated researchers Amy Finkelstein (MIT) and Matt Notowidigdo (Northwestern) to design and implement a randomized...
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I first met Michael Kremer in 2009 when I had just joined J-PAL and started work on creating some of our first cost-effectiveness analysis. It was a daunting task because academic papers that so...
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An earlier version of this blog was posted in The Week . More than a decade ago, I met Abhijit Banerjee and...
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