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The latest on the J-PAL Blog:
🌾 Scaling village input fairs
🌍 Building nonprofit and government capacity
🧒 Improving preschool learning outcomes
🌱 Strengthening food systems for smallholder farmers
💼 Understanding Egypt’s jobs mismatch

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🚽 Open defecation is a common public health risk. J-PAL reviewed 27 RCTs on efforts to increase access to and use of improved toilets.

✅ Subsidies, loans, & info campaigns can help, but health impacts are often limited without greater toilet coverage. bit.ly/4fcRhXw

In Mali, 70% of farmers had to travel outside their village to buy seed and fertilizer. Farmers want inputs and dealers want to sell, yet the market is missing.

Researchers explain how one-day village input fairs, run by a social enterprise, could help: bit.ly/4yXZxlm

Enroll in J-PAL’s free Evaluating Social Programs online course to learn how to use randomized evaluations to strengthen the culture of evidence use in your organization. Deadline: Nov 30.

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Cash transfers keep children in school. But what happens 20 years later?

In Mexico, villages that got PROGRESA transfers 18 months earlier saw children stay in school longer and, in one cohort, earn about 15% more as adults.

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