Eric Edmonds, principal investigator, and Peter Srouji, Research Manager for IPA Philippines, were invited to speak at the US Department of Labor's Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking Grantee Midterm Learning Workshop at the US Department of Labor (US DOL) in Washington, D.C.on August 10, 2017.Eric Edmonds' presentation was about parent-child differences in time allocation responses.

IPA Uganda held a successful dissemination event at the Kampala Serena Hotel on Wednesday, August 9th, 2017.At this event, Pia Raffler and Melina Platas, principal investigators of the Meet the Candidates project, disseminated the project's findings.Preliminary findings from the project suggest that watching video interviews of parliamentary candidates during party primary and multiparty elections increases knowledge about the candidates and increases the likelihood that voters change away from their intended vote choice on Election Day.The audience at the event included political party representatives, members of the electoral commission, government officials, academics, and members of the press.

English On August 4th, IPA Paraguay and the Ministry of Education (MEC) co-hosted the event “Generating Impact: Innovation and Evidence for Public Policy in Education.” The event took place in Asunción, Paraguay.With the objective of contributing to the debate on policy decisions in education, the event presented the state of experimental evidence on education, the insights of behavioral economics applied to education, and the use and generation of evidence in the public sector. The first panel started with the presentation “Interventions in Education: Experimental Evidence—Lessons from Medium and Low-Income Countries” by Andrew Dustan (Vanderbilt University).