AFP News On IPA Uganda Conservation Study
Media Coverage
July 20, 2017

AFP News covers an IPA Uganda study evaluating the effectiveness of a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program, in which Ugandan landowners were paid to not cut forest trees on their property. Seema Jayachandran, the lead author of the study, and Annie Duflo, Executive Director of IPA, reflect on the results of the evaluation.
Colombia's Largest Newspaper on IPA policing RCT / El Periódico Más Grande de Colombia Informa sobre una Evaluación de IPA
Media Coverage
January 24, 2017

Colombia’s largest newspaper, El Tiempo, reports on an IPA study in Bogotá. The study is the largest RCT of its kind, and shows that hotspot policing and municipal services can reduce crime. [In Spanish]

El periódico más grande de Colombia, El Tiempo, informa sobre una evaluación de IPA en Bogotá. La investigación es la evaluación aleatorizada más grande de este tema, y muestra que es posible que patrullaje policial y servicios municipales concentrado en zonas críticas pueda reducir crimen.
Researcher Santiago Tobón on Colombia’s Caracol Radio / Investigador Santiago Tobón en Caracol Radio de Colombia
Media Coverage
January 24, 2017

Hear researcher Santiago Tobón on Colombia’s Caracol Radio discussing new findings on crime reduction at the link below. [In Spanish]
 
Escucha al investigador Santiago Tobón en Caracol Radio de Colombia, discutiendo los resultados sobre reduccion de cimen en el enlace de abajo.
Colombia’s Caracol Radio on crime reduction results / Radio Caracol en Colombia sobre Resultados en Reducción del Crimen
Media Coverage
January 23, 2017

Colombia’s Caracol Radio reports on the presentation of IPA’s new findings from Bogata, on reducing insecurity by 20% using hotspot policing and city services to clean up neighborhoods. [In Spanish]

Radio Caracol en Colombia informa sobre la presentación de los resultados nuevos de IPA en Bogotá. Los resultados precisan una reducción de de 20% de la inseguridad a través de un aumento en patrullaje policial y la recolección de basura y el mejoramiento del alumbrado público en zonas críticas.
Crime Prevention in Colombia Results / Prevención del Crimen en Colombia: Resultados
Media Coverage
January 23, 2017

RCN radio reports on our new results from Colombia on reductions in crime from hotspot policing and municipal services. [In Spanish]

Radio RCN informa sobre nuestros resultados nuevos desde Colombia sobre reducciones en crimen debidas a intensificación en patrullaje policial y recolección de basuras e iluminación.
Fast Company on IPA study on preventing deforestation
Media Coverage
August 12, 2016

Fast Company discusses the findings from our study in Uganda on using cash transfers to preserve carbon-absorbing trees. Read more in the story "Trees Stop Climate Change—Can We Pay People To Stop Cutting Them Down?"
Cheaper energy still unaffordable to rural Kenyan households
Media Coverage
August 10, 2016

Rural demand for electricity connections is significantly lower than the Kenyan government predicted, even when connection costs are highly subsidised, according to economists at the University of California, Berkeley.
Influencing Policy During Institutional Transitions
July 26, 2016

By Arthur Sagot-Duvauroux

It takes time for an organization to influence policy decisions. It requires rigorous work to be trusted as a professional and high-quality organization. Relationships need to be established and expanded to the point that decision makers listen and solicit your opinion.

How can you secure such relationships when in just over a year the country goes through a popular uprising, a transitional government, a coup d’état, and democratic elections?

On October 2014, a popular uprising broke out in Burkina Faso, forcing M. Blaise Compaore to resign...
Uganda deforestation study in Washington Post
Media Coverage
July 06, 2016

The Washington Post reports on our study in Uganda, testing the effectiveness of paying landowners not to cut down trees. Read more in the article, "A cheap, simple experiment just found a very effective way to slow deforestation."
L'Economiste du Faso on the Impact of Voters Knowing the Candidates
Media Coverage
July 05, 2016

Rachel Glennerster writes in Burkina Faso's L'Economiste about her research with IPA in Sierra Leone on how knowledge of candidates affects voters. (Note: in French)
Smart African Politics: Candidates Debating Under a Tree
Media Coverage
November 10, 2015

Political debates are good even when they’re bad. Even when candidates are cringe-worthy, they’re cringe-worthy in public view. And voters learn about all the candidates, not just new ones. In the United States, for example, Hillary Clinton has been center stage in political life for 24 years. Donald Trump is the very definition of “overexposed.” Still, the debates tell us new things about them — their positions, temperament, grace under pressure (or lack thereof), charisma and political skill.

How much more could voters benefit from debates in countries where they know next to...
Op-ed on Kenya power policy in Reuters
Media Coverage
August 17, 2015

IPA researchers Ted Miguel, Kenneth Lee, and Catherine Wolfram, with IPA-Kenya's Francis Meyo have an op-ed in Reuters about President Obama's plan to power Africa. Using findings from IPA's Rural Electric Power Project in Kenya they point out that the vast majority of Kenayans are close to an existing power grid, and what's needed is connections to the grid, not small solar generation.
The Economist on IPA study of taxation, corruption, and loss aversion
Media Coverage
April 27, 2015

 The Economist reports on the IPA study by Lucy Martin of Yale and IPA-Uganda, in which participants played games with corruption losses framed as from aid or tax coffers.
Rachel Glennerster on Good Morning Sierra Leone
Media Coverage
June 03, 2014

Our research affiliate Rachel Glennerster recently gave an interview on Good Morning Sierra Leone about this study on voter knowledge initiatives. Watch the interview below, and read more about the study here.
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Debating More Transparent Elections in Africa
Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster, Kelly Bidwell
March 15, 2013

  All eyes were on Kenya in recent weeks during the run up to the election. The tension was of course understandable; this was the first election since more than 1,000 people were killed in the violence that broke out after Raila Odinga questioned the legitimacy of the 2007 election results. There were considerable efforts both inside and outside of Kenya to ensure that this election was free, fair and peaceful. Part of this has been the instigation of high-tech voting and counting systems, to decrease opportunities for ballot stuffing and increase faith in the legitimacy of both the...

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