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.
Senior Research Associate, J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean
Isidora Barria is a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL LAC, where she works on educational projects, coordinating research implementation and fieldwork. She is currently responsible for implementing the “Daycare Deserts” research project, funded by Yale University, which seeks to track early childhood education centers in Santiago, Chile.
Before joining J-PAL, she participated in the non-profit organization ConsiliumBots, also in the implementation of programs for educational centers and students in Chile and Colombia. In this organization, she coordinated the program's implementation with the participating institutions. Later, she joined TetherEd, where she was in charge of data improvement processes and establishing contact with educational institutions.
Isidora holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Chile and has experience working with communities through volunteering and the research projects in which she has participated.