Replacing rice-bag delivery with digital card vouchers helps recipients get their intended supplies, researchers report.

J-PAL North America and the University of Chicago’s Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab will evaluate two approaches to text-based parental engagement programs that motivate two distinct kinds of learning interactions.

In collaboration with Community Jameel and Co-Impact, rigorous research will inform social policies and programs.

Evaluation Incubators to provide technical assistance, training, funding to help partners design randomized evaluations of housing stability strategies and state and local programs.

First results underscore the urgent need for a better understanding of how to address inequities in birth outcomes.

New J-PAL North America publication helps policymakers understand summer programs’ wide-ranging benefits, in such areas as criminal justice involvement, education, and development.

A new platform will unite climate models, impact predictions, random control trial evaluations, and humanitarian services to bring cutting-edge tools to Bangladeshi communities.

J-PAL North America publication highlights the promise of sectoral employment programs in combating US wage inequality.

MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.

Large-scale video campaign allowed physicians and public health messengers to encourage staying home over the 2020 holidays.