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Earlier this month, J-PAL’s Natalie Valent spoke at the @unecosoc Youth Forum on a panel discussing SDG17, youth & the #FutureOfWork , and J-PAL’s partnership w/ the International Labour Organization & @decentjobsyouth.
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🆕 Nurturing childhood curiosity to enhance learning 🇹🇷
Today on VoxDev, Sule Alan (@EUI_EU Bilkent Economics J-PAL CEPR) & Ipek Mumcu (@UofEBusiness) explore the effects of a pedagogical programme in Türkiye that nurtured natural curiosity: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…
An alum of J-PAL Africa, Grant Bridgman sought to address inequalities in access to information. Read about his path from being an RA in Sierra Leone to founding his translation start-up, Uliza, in our latest Alumni Spotlight. bit.ly/49ORFWQ
Congratulations to all of the authors! We're honored to have Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, and Paul Niehaus as part of our affiliated researcher network. Read J-PAL's summary of their winning paper: bit.ly/3WlaXQv
Interested in development economics, food security, & policy? Apply to our #UJALA_research Senior Research Associate position at UM6P - Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in #Morocco ! We are looking for candidates skilled in evidence synthesis & communication. j-p.al/kb8
Governments worldwide are exploring ways to use #AI . Iqbal Dhaliwal recently joined J-PAL South Asia and the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology to discuss how AI might enhance public service delivery and the need for rigorous evaluations of AI applications for social good.
Migration, trade, & climate change are just a few of the topics covered by #AbhijitBanerjee & #EstherDuflo in Good Economics for Hard Times, a #DEDP course inspired by their book of the same name. Don’t miss out and enroll today: bit.ly/3Utkzaw #EconTwitter
'To transform lives in the Global South, focus on transforming the digital infrastructure.' Thank you Amitabh Kant for visiting J-PAL Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and sharing invaluable experiences from leading NITI Aayog, Make in India, your journey in Kerala, & as G20 Sherpa. You are an inspiration!
Today is #EarthDay 🌎 and we're recognizing researchers who are committed to building the evidence base on combating #climatechange , like Christopher Knittel. Learn more about his research to inform policies on greenhouse gas emissions reduction: j-p.al/e8e15