The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 1,000 researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 1,000 researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.
Our affiliated professors are based at over 120 universities and conduct randomized evaluations around the world to design, evaluate, and improve programs and policies aimed at reducing poverty. They set their own research agendas, raise funds to support their evaluations, and work with J-PAL staff on research, policy outreach, and training.
Our research, policy, and training work is fundamentally better when it is informed by a broad range of perspectives.
Research Associate, J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean
Olaf Oseguera is a Research Associate at J-PAL LAC where he currently works on the development, and implementation of an impact evaluation of the Impulso Chileno program. This intervention seeks to identify and help high-potential entrepreneurs grow by offering them a combination of large financial endowments, business training and personalized mentoring. Before this, he was involved in the data collection process of several studies in the Dominican Republic, as well as delivering impact evaluation training courses for NGOs and policymakers in Chile and México.
Prior to joining J-PAL in 2020, he worked with several social start-ups and international organizations to develop and impart business training programs for microentrepreneurs in marginalized zones in Mexico.
Olaf holds a master of applied science degree on data, economics and development policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from a BA in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.