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IPA Random Update LATEST RESEARCH & NEWS NEW RESULTS Factory Jobs vs. Cash Grants in Ethiopia: Five Years Later Researchers: Christopher Blattman, Stefan Dercon, Simon Franklin   Industrial development is often seen as an important strategy for reducing un- and underemployment in low-income countries. But how do those jobs affect workers? To what extent do workers prefer these jobs over other options, like self-employment? In Ethiopia, researchers randomly assigned mostly female jobseekers to receive an industrial job offer or an unconditional cash transfer, meant to spur self-employment. While they found positive impacts of the cash transfers on occupational choice, income, and health in the first year, these effects largely dissipated after five years, suggesting one-time interventions may be insufficient for overcoming barriers to wage- or self-employment.   Read the full summary here and the full working paper here. FEATURED ARTICLE Can Banks Play a Role in Improving Resilience to Climate Change?    By Dean Karlan, Rebecca Rouse, and Laura Burke   The world’s neediest people are particularly vulnerable to unexpected crises, which come in many forms, from catastrophic conflicts to calamitous cyclones. The financial-service provider can throw a lifeline in the form of financial products that make the difference between sinking or swimming. This article, published in International Banker magazine, covers practical ways banks can help vulnerable people living through the most challenging circumstances.   Read the full article here. USING RESULTS Evidence-Informed Social Protection Programming in the Philippines     Researchers: Eric Edmonds and Caroline Theoharides    Around the world, 152 million children are engaged in child labor. Policymakers have aimed to reduce child labor by addressing what is considered to be its root cause: poverty. An IPA research team partnered with the Philippines Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to rigorously evaluate the impact of a social protection program, which provided households with a productive asset and business training, on child labor and household economic outcomes. Eighteen months after the program started, households offered the program had better food security and improvements in some measures of child welfare, but the program also led to a modest increase in the number of children who worked. In response to the findings, DOLE decided to make improvements to their program.   Read the full impact case study here. BLOG To Make Progress Fighting Poverty, We Have to Take Methods Seriously By Steven Glazerman Two Takeaways from Our Panel on Security Policy in Latin America By Sebastian Chaskel IPA IN THE NEWS Colombia's El Nuevo Siglo Reports on IPA/J-PAL-Sponsored Security Panel Daily Nation on IPA and GiveDirectly’s Universal Basic Income Study in Kenya El País Covers Dissemination Event for IPA Evaluation of World Bicycle Relief Program EVENTS UPCOMING IPA Ghana to Co-Host 2019 Evidence to Action Conference July 9-12 | Accra, Ghana IPA Kenya to Partner with CEGA for 8th Annual EASST Summit July 22-23 | Nairobi, Kenya RECENT IPA Ghana Hosts Dissemination of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Results June 27 | Accra, Ghana ​IPA Research Featured at RISE Conference June 19-20 | Washington, DC, United States IPA Malawi Presents on Impact Evaluations at Monitoring & Evaluation Workshop June 12 | Lilongwe, Malawi​ IPA Kenya Participates in Women Deliver Conference June 2-6 | Vancouver, Canada World Bicycle Relief Dissemination Event Presents Results of IPA Zambia Evaluation May 31 | Lusaka, Zambia IPA Holds 2019 Spring Benefit May 30 | New York City, United States IPA Co-Hosts Panel on Public Safety with Security Secretaries in Colombia May 23 | Medellín, Colombia Evidence Matters: Improving Community Acceptance of Former Members of Violent Extremist Groups in Nigeria April 18 | New York City, United States DONATE  |  RESEARCH  |  IMPACT  |   WORK WITH IPA  |  CAREERS   ​poverty-action.org Sent to ainchams@gmail.com by Innovations For Poverty Action 101 Whitney Ave New Haven, CT 06510 USA | newsletter@poverty-action.org  ​ Unsubscribe | Profile | Forward

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