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Release: J-PAL and Pratham awarded philanthropic funding toward education systems change
New Teaching at the Right Level initiative to support over three million primary school students in Africa with evidence-backed approach.
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Moving from evidence to policy change
Today we launch an expanded section of our website called Evidence to Policy, which explores how J-PAL affiliated researchers and staff, along with government and NGO partners, have drawn on evidence produced by randomized evaluations to inform policy changes around the world.
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Preparing for 2018 elections in the "Year of the Woman": Lessons from India
If many more women are elected to office, we don’t yet know what impacts such an influx might have on policy decisions and gender norms in US society. However, many J-PAL affiliated researchers have explored this question in India by taking advantage of a naturally occurring experimental design.
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Introducing J-PAL's Firms sector
What role do policies that affect private sector firms play in closing the productivity gap between higher-income and lower-income countries, and what are the implications of firms’ policies on economic growth and worker welfare?
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Last year, 1 in 5 women globally had an unmet need for contraceptives. How do gender dynamics affect this - and how… https://t.co/2bbRTzPlpC
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- How can city governments use impact evaluations to inform policy decisions? Read our interview with Henry Fitts, Director of Innovation for the City of Rochester, New York: j-p.al/a8cd5. 3 days 18 hours ago.
- *Application closing in two weeks* Are you a development professional interested in understanding and measuring program impact? Join us in New Delhi from July 1-5 for the South Asia edition of Evaluating Social Programs, where you will gain a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and receive step-by-step training on when and how to conduct an evaluation. Apply by April 30! https://j-p.al/sa-exec2019 3 days 23 hours ago.
- Today's the *last day* to apply for the 2019 US edition of Evaluating Social Programs, our five-day executive education course. Learn practical impact evaluation methods & apply learnings to your own programs - more at https://j-p.al/US-ExecEd-19 & sample agenda below. Join us! 1 week 23 hours ago.
- 1 in 10 people in the world today are illiterate. This program teaches people to read in as little as 50 days. 1 week 1 day ago.
- We're hiring in Cairo to expand our research and policy work to reduce poverty in the MENA region - lots of new projects being launched! See open research and finance positions at https://j-p.al/5c781. Please share, and tag others who may be interested! 1 week 3 days ago.
As of 2018, one in five women had an unmet need for modern...
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Gender inequality is global and pervasive. Amartya Sen estimates that over 200 million women are “missing” worldwide . Moreover,...
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On March 21, Claire Walsh , a Senior Policy Manager at J-PAL Global, received one of the highest honors of the Massachusetts Institute of...
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We are excited to kick off our Alumni Spotlight series with Meghan Mahoney, formerly a Policy Manager at J-PAL Global. After a four-year stint at J-PAL, she left in 2016 to become the Evaluation Director at Educate!, an organization which works to transform secondary education in Africa to empower young people to take leadership initiative, create small businesses, and improve their livelihoods. She joins us to talk about lessons she learned while at J-PAL and share advice for succeeding at J-PAL and beyond.
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Four new affiliates recently joined J-PAL’s academic network: Marcella Alsan at the Stanford School of Medicine, Kevin Donovan at the Yale School of Management, Robert Darko Osei at the University of...
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