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By Shahana Hirji and Cynthia Bosumtwi-Sam Scaling up an effective solution is often seen as the holy grail of the evidence movement—but figuring out how to get from a proof of concept to implementation at scale by a government is often an elusive...

Since 2016, the Airbel Center at the International Rescue Committee and Innovations for Poverty Action have been designing the Modern Man Challenge. The research team is now conducting a full impact evaluation of the program.

J-PAL and the American Economic Association (AEA) have been working together over the past year to create digital object identifiers, or DOIs, for each trial registered in the AEA Registry for Randomized Controlled Trials. We are happy to announce...

In March of this year, I joined IPA as its Chief Research and Policy Officer, a relatively new role that was created, in short, to help IPA fulfill its mission of creating a world with more evidence and less poverty. Over the months of first...

In March 2018, the Journal of Development Economics (JDE) began piloting Pre-results Review track (also referred to as “registered reports” in other disciplines) in collaboration with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (...

Since joining IPA as its first chief research and methods officer, I've been spending a lot of time assessing the quality of every aspect of our research and helping smart people design the next generation of evaluation research methods.

In May, a panel with Secretaries of Security of Colombia’s three largest cities—Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín—was the first to bring the Secretaries together since their positions were created. What were the takeaways?

While the Modern Man Challenge has been prototyped, tested, and improved in several rounds prior to a randomized control trial that is currently running, earlier this year we also decided to test a variation of the challenge through multiple...

What's it like to have your program studied with an RCT? IPA spoke with our partner Samasource about the opportunities and challenges of partnering on an evaluation.

IPA's IPV Initiative is leveraging existing studies to create stronger evidence to address intimate partner violence.

Radha Rajkotia has joined IPA as our Chief Research & Policy Officer.

(Editor's note: The title of this post has been updated.) IPA pursues many strategies to move evidence to policy impact, but one that engenders particularly meaningful partnerships is to work from within governments, whether through embedding staff...

If you’re a teacher in the United States with a student loan, you can get $5,000 to $17,500 of your student loans forgiven by the federal government after five consecutive years of teaching in low-income schools. To do this, you’d have to first...

Editor’s note: This is part two in a series on what IPA has learned about making sure evidence gets used, and what we hope to do more of in the future.  See part one, laying out our new strategic ambition, here.  

What does it take to move evidence to policy? Introducing our Theory of Action, and a new strategic plan to make it happen.

Co-written with Alejandra Martinez