Join us in J-PAL’s online #EvaluatingSocialPrograms course to explore our updated Evidence to Policy module, highlighting how rigorous evidence has helped inform and scale effective programs around the world. 🌍

https://bit.ly/4y9wGKN

Thinking about applying to MIT’s DEDP master’s program? Applications open in November. Prep starts now. 🗓️ Join us Oct 21, 9am ET for everything you need on requirements, funding, and what makes a strong DEDP candidate, straight from Prof. Sara Ellison, the team, and an alum.

https://bit.ly/46GnXo0

Health systems have spent decades expanding access to care—but access to what kind of care matters.

A randomized evaluation in Nigeria shows: posting recently graduated doctors to rural facilities closed the rural-urban infant mortality gap.

https://bit.ly/4ARVJnV

Electricity access is essential for growth, but household connections alone haven't been enough to boost jobs and incomes.

New J-PAL blog: how pairing power with support for firms could build productive demand, and why rigorous evidence matters: https://bit.ly/4gYICJC

Small barriers, big consequences. At Financial Inclusion Week, J-PAL is sharing evidence on:

🌾 Smarter agricultural insurance (on demand)
🛡️ Measuring inclusive insurance impact: Oct 5, 10:30 AM ET
🪪 Nigeria's Resident Card rollout: Oct 7, 5:00 AM ET

Register: https://bit.ly/3Vp4LIU

As AI expands rapidly across developing economies, how do we ensure it delivers real impact?

We're testing AI tools where they're already being deployed, in classrooms, clinics, and government offices, to see what actually works, and for whom.

Explore the research agenda: https://bit.ly/4z7lPBx

You're not the only one wondering "what happens after MicroMasters?" 🌍 Thousands have made the jump to MIT's DEDP master's. Hear their story and yours could be next.

Live webinar, Oct 21, 9am ET. Save your spot: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/event/webinar-admissions-dedp-masters-program-mit-0

Agricultural extension programs often train a subset of farmers, hoping knowledge will spread. Does it? Esther Duflo, Tavneet Suri, Daniel Keniston, and Céline Zipfel dig into the evidence from Rwanda: https://bit.ly/4rB6sPk

🚀 Calling all policymakers, program implementers, and M&E pros! Join us in J-PAL’s free, self-paced #EvaluatingSocialPrograms course to learn how to design and use evidence from randomized evaluations to measure what works.

https://bit.ly/4y9wGKN

J-PAL's Project AI Evidence is launching the PAIE Scholars Program, supporting early-career researchers in Asia and Africa to lead rigorous evaluations of AI-enabled interventions for social good.

Completion award: $1,000.

Applications close Oct 16: https://bit.ly/4xBMrtj

Can AI chatbots improve outcomes for farmers? 🌱 Our new Evidence to Policy case study in J-PAL’s #EvaluatingSocialPrograms online course walks through a practical framework for evaluating AI tools to reach farmers at scale.

https://bit.ly/4y9wGKN

Most AI-and-work research centers high-income economies. But ~85% of workers are in low- and middle-income countries.

On the sidelines of #UNGA81, J-PAL + @schmidtsciences hosted a fireside chat to ask: what can actually be done, and by whom?

MicroMasters done. What's next? 🎓 📚Find out how it opens the door to an MIT master's degree. Oct 21, 9am ET: Prof. Sara Ellison, the DEDP team, and an alum break down eligibility, timing, and how to apply strong.

Register free: https://bit.ly/46GnXo0

Congratulations to Michael Kremer, longtime J-PAL affiliate and 2019 Nobel co-laureate with J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, on becoming the World Bank's next Chief Economist!

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Climate change disproportionately affects people living in poverty, and there's a critical lack of evidence on the real-world impacts of climate solutions.

As leaders gather for #ClimateWeekNYC, J-PAL's Environment, Energy, and Climate Change sector is closing that gap.

https://bit.ly/47Y6t6I

We're hiring! 📣

J-PAL Global is looking for a Communications Associate in Cambridge, MA.

You will help turn findings from randomized evaluations into work that moves policy: blog posts, newsletters, social, our annual report, and thought leadership.

👉 Apply:
https://bit.ly/4AhTtWT

⏰ Now open! Interested in building your impact evaluation toolkit? Join us in J-PAL’s free, self-paced Evaluating Social Programs online course with @mitopenlearning.

https://bit.ly/4y9wGKN

What happens ten, fifteen, even twenty years after a development program ends?

J-PAL's new Long-Term Impacts Initiative (LTII) is funding research to find out, helping us understand whether anti-poverty programs produce lasting gains in income and livelihoods.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/46uFWNZ

Context is critical in designing effective policy.

To help advance the research agenda across the continent, our African Scholars Program supports researchers in leading randomized evaluations on today's most pressing development challenges.

🌍 Explore their latest work: https://bit.ly/3V8PITo