Por Gabriella Wong & Hugo Salas
¿Pueden los mensajes de texto influir en el comportamiento financiero? IPA está trabajando en estrecha colaboración con SBS para descubrir cómo mejorar los puntajes crediticios en Perú.
Media Coverage
January 28, 2019
In an op-ed for El Comercio, Oswaldo Molina writes on IPA research conducted by Andrew Dustan, Stanislao Moldonado, and Juan Manuel Hernandez-Agramonte evaluating the impact of behavioral nudges to improve the performance of public officials.
Media Coverage
November 27, 2018
Vox's Future Perfect writes on the effects of cash transfers compared to holistic "graduation" programs as well as how both approaches can be applied in conjunction with one another.
Media Coverage
October 18, 2018
With the launch of their Future Perfect section, Vox discusses IPA research on cash benchmarking, comparing cash to the multi-faceted "graduation approach" to helping the poorest of the poor. They discuss how this worked in Uganda and a
Media Coverage
July 18, 2018
Peru’s Gestión reports on a study in development between that country’s pension fund administrator and IPA to test the impact of matching contributions on enrollment and contributions to pensions among workers in Lima.
Media Coverage
June 29, 2018
Peru's El Comercio reports on IPA's work studying the effects of matching contributions on employees saving for retirement. Researchers Researchers from the University of Maryland and Universidad del Pacifico are testing whether matching contributions can encourage informal workers at small firms to save more.
April 04, 2018
CREDIT:
Dario Rodriguez
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman, Kareem Haggag, Xavier Giné
March 21, 2018
By: Gabriella Wong & Hugo Salas
January 31, 2018
by Daniel Hurtado
Announcement
August 15, 2017
The Peace & Recovery (P&R) Program at Innovations for Poverty Action is launching its first request for proposals, through an Expression of Interest (EOI) Form available now. Expressions of Interest are due on September 15, 2017.
The P&R Program is designed to support field experiments and related research in several broad areas:
Announcement
May 15, 2017
MineduLAB has launched its Third Innovation Window, a call for proposals to identify low-cost innovations that can be evaluated using experimental methods and administrative data from the Ministry of Education of Peru (Minedu). Application materials should be submitted by May 31, 2017.
Media Coverage
October 06, 2016
The Economist talks about IPA's work in microcredit, flexible repayment loans, and ultra-poor graduation studies.
Media Coverage
September 08, 2016
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs website has a feature story on IPA Researcher Christopher Neilson (Princeton University) and his work on the Peruvian MineduLAB, a new lab for education policy housed within a governmental ministry, together with IPA and J-PAL.
Media Coverage
November 19, 2015
Stanford Social Innovation Review reports on IPA and our partners' six-country evaluation of the "graduation" approach to helping those who make under $1.25 a day. According to Harvard economist Michael Kremer
"...it’s very encouraging. We’re not going to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030. But we can get most of the way there with the tools that we have available.”
Media Coverage
November 16, 2015
Peru’s Mundo MyPE, a journal aimed at Peru’s small business sector, interviewed Oriana Ponta, Program Manager of IPA’s Small & Medium Enterprises Program. Oriana discussed IPA and J-PAL’s efforts to share evidence about programs that help small businesses grow, as well as partnerships with Peruvian government agencies to evaluate their small business programs and policies.
Media Coverage
November 14, 2015
Cobertura de la Conferencia- Taller Internacional: “Evidencia para el Desarrollo de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa”
