On March 8th, 2016, Alison Fahey (J-PAL Program Manager for Finance) spoke at the SAMN Conference in Delhi about building the financial capability of low-income consumers -- in other words, equipping them to take the right financial decisions for their individual situations, a key to enabling their financial success.She introduced attendees to several new innovations that aim to build consumer financial capability and how they are being evaluated by IPA and J-PAL, including three studies funded by the Citi IPA Financial Capability Research Fund: Mobile-izing Savings in Afghanistan, Rules of Thumb in India, and Messaging Replication, which is being implemented in multiple countries globally.

Both Innovations for Poverty Action and CEGA aim to support high quality, transparent, reproducible research.The research support staff at both organizations are typically tasked with preparing data and code for publication.However, key steps for preparing data and code take place as early as the study design phase as well as in the data collection process.We have several objectives for this workshop:Familiarize participants with the importance of reproducible research and research transparency (both for their own work as well as from a public good perspective).Present concrete guidance and tools e.g.

UPDATE: You can find a recording of the webinar here, and you can download a PDF of the presentation slides below.From noon to 1:30pm on Tuesday, March 1st, Dean Karlan conducted a webinar on barriers to financial inclusion.The event is one of a series of research seminars organized by the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), an association of central banks and regulatory bodies in Latin America and the Caribbean.