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.
Co-Chair, Labor Markets
J-PAL Affiliated Professor
Professor
University of Warwick
Stefano Caria is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He uses experimental and structural methods to investigate how to make labor markets work better for the poor. In recent work, Stefano evaluates a number of interventions designed to help different populations (including young Ethiopians and Syrian refugees) search for employment and to understand the causes and consequences of labor turnover. Stefano received his PhD in economics from the University of Oxford.
In addition to serving as Co-Chair of J-PAL's Labor Markets Sector, Stefano has served on the review board of J-PAL's Jobs and Opportunity Initiative and Social Protection Initiative, as well as J-PAL North America's Health Care Delivery Initiative.