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Climate Week NYC 2025 | MIT Climate Project

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 16d

📣 #ClimateWeekNYC attendees 📣: Interested in learning more about accelerating effective and equitable solutions at the nexus of climate and poverty? Join @JPAL_NA and @JPAL at the MIT Innovation Showcase on 9/24 from 3-6 pm: https://climateproject.mit.edu/news-and-events/climate-week-nyc-2025

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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 22d

Happy National Voter Registration Day! Today we’re highlighting an #RCT of targeted mailers, which found that sharing information about voter eligibility increased 📈 registration and turnout among eligible voters with a past conviction. Read more: www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/i...

The Impact of Targeted Mailers to Re-Engage US Voters with Criminal Convictions | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Researchers evaluated the impact of targeted mailings encouraging people with criminal records to register to vote on voting behavior in North Carolina. Mailers increased both voter registration and g...

Climate Action Learning Lab helps state and local leaders identify and implement effective climate mitigation strategies

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 22d

🔗 Learn more about the #ClimateActionLearningLab and our work to advance evidence for climate action: news.mit.edu/2025/climate...

J-PAL North America's inaugural Climate Action Learning Lab provided six U.S. cities and states with customized training and resources to leverage data and evaluation to advance climate solutions...

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 22d

☀️ The next phase of the #ClimateActionLearningLab will center on building partnerships with researchers to explore the design & launch randomized evaluations and strengthening the community of practice we've built together.

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 22d

🧑🏽‍🏫 Programming culminated at our July Summit, where leaders presented strategic evaluation plans on building energy benchmarking policies, increasing take-up rates of energy efficient home improvement programs, and scoring criteria for affordable housing development programs.

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 22d

🧐 Over 3 months of programming, participants built skills and knowledge in evidence generation and use, reviewed and applied research insights to their own programmatic areas, and identified priority research questions to guide evidence-building and decision making practices.

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 22d

🏛️ We were thrilled to welcome more than 25 participants from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, and the Cities of Lincoln, Newport News, Orlando, and Philadelphia.

From Evidence to Action: Replicating Effective Homelessness Prevention Across Communities

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 22d

🪴This spring J-PAL North America launched our inaugural #ClimateActionLearningLab to support state & local leaders in leveraging data and evaluation to advance climate solutions that work.
Read this 🧵 to learn more 👇🏼

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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 29d

Did you miss the latest edition of the Evidence Matters webinar series on homelessness prevention, co-hosted by J-PAL North America, King County, WA, and LEO at Notre Dame?
Watch the recording and hear insights from the presenters on moving from evidence to impact: leo.nd.edu/impact/evide...

The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) identifies innovative, effective and scalable programs that help people move out of poverty.

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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's #InternationalLiteracyDay 📚! A randomized evaluation across 47 schools found that the Big Word Club's literacy program improved students' knowledge and retention of words. Read more about the program: www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/c...

Evaluating the Impact of a Tech-Based Early Childhood Vocabulary Program in the United States | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Researchers evaluated the impact of a vocabulary improvement “edutainment” program for young children, Big Word Club, on children’s receptive vocabulary. Researchers found that the Big Word Club incre...

Creating Moves to Opportunity: Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 8

📣Upcoming webinar! On 9/25 at 3PM ET, @stefanie-deluca.bsky.social is presenting at an @ssrc.org webinar on results from the J-PAL funded study, Creating Moves to Opportunity, which investigated housing mobility & neighborhood choice in the US.
🔗Register today: events.zoom.us/ev/Ao5rceZ28...

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Intensive Case Management to Overcome Barriers to Self-Sufficiency in the United States | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 5

An #RCT by @JPAL_NA affiliated professors Javier Espinosa, Bill Evans, and @phillipsecon.bsky.social evaluated the impact of a comprehensive case management program on economic self-sufficiency in the city of Rochester, NY. Learn more about the results: www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/i...

Researchers worked with the City of Rochester and local social service providers to evaluate the Bridges to Success program, in which participants were paired with mentors who helped them move towards...

J-PAL North America launches Initiative for Effective US Crime Policy

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our new Initiative for Effective US Crime Policy (IECP) will fund rigorous research, develop public sector partnerships, & support scaling equitable solutions for criminal legal system reform. Read more: https://news.mit.edu/2025/j-pal-north-america-launches-initiative-effective-us-crime-policy-0826

J-PAL North America, with generous grant support from Arnold Ventures, launched the Initiative for Effective US Crime Policy (IECP) to generate rigorous evidence on strategies to make fair and effecti...

The Impact of Outreach and Assistance from Navigators on Medicaid Renewals in the United States | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 3

4/4 The findings demonstrate how partnering with navigator organizations may help Medicaid agencies improve the retention of their beneficiaries.
🔗Read more about the results: www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/i...
🔗 Read the full paper here: www.nber.org/papers/w34191

Researchers assessed the impact of outreach on Medicaid retention; outreach messages provided a reminder to renew as well as information about how to obtain free one-on-one assistance with renewal pro...

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 3

3/4 Participants who received the pre-recorded phone call had higher Medicaid renewal by one percentage point, while Medicaid renewal rates were higher for certain groups including Tribal members, children, and people with chronic conditions.

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 3

2/4 In the study, all participants received written outreach about their renewal deadline📬, but some also received a text message 💬 or a text + a pre-recorded phone call 📞 offering navigator assistance through a hotline or a chat-bot to help participants renew their Medicaid.

Providing information to students and parents to improve learning outcomes

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨NEW RESULTS 🚨
🧵1/4 J-PAL affiliated professors Rebecca Myerson & @lauradague.bsky.social, & Allison Espeseth from @coveringwi evaluated the impact of outreach and assistance from health insurance navigators on #Medicaid renewal. Results below 👇

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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 2

As parents prepare for #BacktoSchool, many want to be involved in their children's learning. An easy #costeffective way to ⬆️ parental engagement & student effort is to give both parents & students information about their educational performance:
www.povertyactionlab.org/policy-insig...

Giving parents and students information about their educational performance or options often increases parental engagement, student effort, or both, leading to improved learning outcomes. Providing in...

How to Direct Workforce Dollars Where They'll Pay Off Most

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy #LaborDay! Today, we celebrate worker contributions & highlight the value of investing in sectoral employment programs, which can open doors to higher earnings & fill critical industry needs. More: https://www.governing.com/workforce/how-to-direct-workforce-dollars-where-theyll-pay-off-most

Workforce development programs should address dual challenges: Supporting the economic mobility of workers while simultaneously meeting the skills needs of in-demand industries.

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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Aug 29

Can comprehensive case management help individuals with low-income overcome barriers to economic self-sufficiency? An #RCT led by J-PAL affiliated researchers found that a program in Rochester, NY led to ⬆️ employment outcomes & personal goal achievement. www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/i...

Intensive Case Management to Overcome Barriers to Self-Sufficiency in the United States | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Researchers worked with the City of Rochester and local social service providers to evaluate the Bridges to Success program, in which participants were paired with mentors who helped them move towards...

J-PAL North America launches Initiative for Effective US Crime Policy

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨 Just launched: J-PAL North America's Initiative for Effective US Crime Policy (IECP)!
With support from @arnoldventures.bsky.social‬, IECP will fund research to improve outcomes at every stage of the criminal legal process: news.mit.edu/2025/j-pal-n...

J-PAL North America, with generous grant support from Arnold Ventures, launched the Initiative for Effective US Crime Policy (IECP) to generate rigorous evidence on strategies to make fair and effecti...

The Evidence Effect: Evidence for more effective social policy in Europe and North America

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Aug 21

‼️ONE WEEK left for a webinar on moving from evidence to impact in homelessness prevention.
Co-hosted by J-PAL North America, King County, WA, & LEO, panelists will share lessons from building partnerships that turn research into practical solutions.
Register here forms.gle/aWuEf7XezAVt...

Title: Evidence Matters, a series about turning evidence into impact
Bottom section includes the logos for the Lab for Economic Opportunities, King County, and J-PAL North America.

J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · Aug 19

With tight budgets, building prosperous research infrastructure and collaborations to create evidence-based social policies is crucial. Read more on how North America & Europe has successfully done this in the past, on the J-PAL blog: www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/7-30-25...

Generating rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of programs designed to reduce poverty is not just the work of lower and middle-income countries. Countries across Europe and North America are also g...