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📢 Join our team! J-PAL Global is recruiting a Senior Training Associate to help policymakers, researchers, and practitioners conduct rigorous impact evaluations.
📍 Based at MIT, Cambridge, MA. Apply by June 15:
https://bit.ly/4dzzLex
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What will it take to close Africa's finance gap?
Our new blog series explores 5 priority areas for inclusive finance, from AI-driven credit to currency risk.
🧵 https://www.povertyactionlab.org/blog?region=All§or=388&topic=All
📢 Join J-PAL Global as a Senior Training Associate at MIT in Cambridge, MA!
💡 In this role, you will create teaching materials, support training courses, and collaborate with global partners to advance evidence-informed policy.
🔗 Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/4dzzLex
Who should decide who gets rewarded at work? Managers or co-workers?
A firm-level randomized evaluation in India finds workplace democracy boosts attendance, but managerial discretion drives productivity. What you reward shapes workplace culture.
🔗 https://www.nber.org/papers/w35138
📢 We are recruiting a Senior Training Associate to equip policymakers, researchers, and practitioners with the tools to conduct rigorous impact evaluations.
📍 Based at MIT in Cambridge, MA.
Apply by June 15: https://bit.ly/4dzzLex
Floods are a regular risk for farmers in Bangladesh. 🇧🇩
New evidence from Bangladesh shows that flexible loans helped farmers manage the risk from floods.
Read more: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/protecting-agricultural-households-against-floods-through-flexible-microfinance
Exchange rates can shape development more than we think.
New on @voxdev.bsky.social why currency risk sits at the crossroads of international finance and development.
https://voxdev.org/topic/finance/where-international-finance-meets-development-role-currency-risk
What if students, not teachers, set the rules for classroom behavior?
A randomized study across 127 middle schools in Bangladesh finds that it improves classroom climate and academic performance, with gains persisting 1.5 years later.
🔗 https://www.nber.org/papers/w35160
Congratulations to the DEDP Class of 2025 on graduating from MIT! 🎓
Learn more about the DEDP master’s program at MIT:
https://economics.mit.edu/academic-programs/masters-programs/master-data-economics-and-design-policy-dedp
🚀 18.8 million households now receive digital food vouchers in Indonesia 🇮🇩
The Government of Indonesia & J-PAL SEA scaled Program Sembako, improving how aid reached those who needed it most and reducing admin costs.
https://bit.ly/4tmJQ4v
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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
Currency volatility in African markets shapes development outcomes by determining who can access capital and on what terms, with firms in shallow financial markets often forced to choose between expen...
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 1,100 researchers at universities around the world, J-...
www.povertyactionlab.org
Floods are an extremely destructive and increasingly common threat to rural agricultural households in countries without strong social safety nets. Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to stu...
