Today at GAP, we had an amazing day with Alex Eble presenting his paper. We also recorded our third GAP Podcast with him.

Stay tuned for the podcast link in the next few days! Nishith Prakash Shantanu Khanna SilviaPrina Mary Steffel Northeastern U. Columbia University

🎓 Join us for the final GAP Seminar of Spring 2024 at Northeastern University! 🌐

Don't miss out on an enlightening session with @Alexeble, as he presents 'When Your Bootstraps Are Not Enough: How Demand and Supply Interact to Generate Learning in Settings of Extreme Poverty'.

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Enjoyed my time at Global Action for Policy (GAP) Initiative sharing my 20 years’ lessons in founding DIME to change how development research is done to have substantial impact on people’s lives

How can we translate research into better real world policy-making and project implementation? Lets learn and discuss this super important topic at Nishith Prakash Silvia Prina NU School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Global Initiative Policy Workshop from beautiful Boston.

My two worlds of economics and psychology collide as Eldar Shafir begins his presentation at the #GAPconference at Northeastern U.

Thanks Nishith Prakash for the invite!

Check out Michael Kremer's Keynote address at the #GAPconfrence ! On funding social Innovation and how these projects can scale to benefit millions of people. Thank you for coming!

Day 2: The panel on 'The Building Bridges by Designing Collaborative Interventions' where Bethany Park, Rajit Punhani Gonzalo Hdz. Licona and Nishith Prakash discuss the real challenges and solutions to bridge the gap between research and policy-making.

Day 2, third amazing presentation on 'The effect of field training officers on Police use of force' by Matthew B. Ross

Second presentation of Day 2 by John Lowrey on 'Food donations, retail operations, and retail pricing'

Day 2 starts with an incredible presentation by Sara Constantino on 'Households responses to guaranteed income' #Gapconfrence

The GAP aiming to address last miles problems and solutions with members of J-PAL who's goal it is to provide evidence to policy! Iqbal Dhaliwal World Bank J-PAL_SA

Had some amazing book signing action done by Joshua Angrist (Josh Angrist)!

Thanks to ⁦Josh Angrist⁩ for taking a trip across the river to give the ⁦Global Action for Policy (GAP) Initiative⁩ Inaugural Keynote Address & thanks to ⁦SilviaPrina⁩ and ⁦Nishith Prakash for hosting a fantastic conference!
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⁦NU Economics⁩ & ⁦NU School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs⁩ Asst Prof ⁦Shantanu Khanna⁩ presents his work evaluating the California Competes Tax Credit program and other place based policies ⁦Global Action for Policy (GAP) Initiative⁩ Inaugural Conference!
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Adding to Day 1’s excitement, we were joined by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, Joshua Angrist (Josh Angrist)! Joshua gave us an overview of his transformative journey to get where is he is today, and provided his wisdom on causal identification in economics / policy.

Enjoying GAP conference Northeastern U. with co-authors Pinar Keskin, Onur Altındağ, Shuo Zhang! Thanks for the great organization to my colleagues Nishith Prakash and SilviaPrina 🥳