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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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Launching a practical guide to measuring women's and girls’ empowerment
J-PAL’s newest research resource, A Practical Guide to Measuring Women's and Girls’ Empowerment in Impact Evaluations, gathers insights from the experiences of J-PAL affiliated researchers around the world and offers practical tips for how to measure women's and girls’ empowerment in impact evaluations.
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Globally, 1.7 billion adults remain unbanked without an account at a financial institution or mobile money provider according to the World Bank’s Global Findex 2017 report. Yet, two thirds of these...
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This is a guest post from Lauren Benner of the MIT Refugee Action Hub. More than 68.5 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety and stability. A...
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This is a guest post from Darshak Sanghavi of OptumLabs. As a pediatrician, a health policy director, and now as a chief medical officer, I’ve dedicated my career to improving health outcomes...
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