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This blog features an interview with Judge Veronica Galvan, a member of the King County Superior Court, on the role of evaluating judicial programs.

In this blog, Karin Mason, former Agriculture Program Intern at CEGA, highlights three ATAI-funded projects led by graduate students Steven Brownstone (UCSD), Piyush Gandhi (UCSC), and Iacopo Bianchi (SU).

J-PAL has just reached a milestone: we now have over 1,000 researchers in our network. Each and every one of these researchers are central to our mission of improving lives through evidence.

The UM6P-J-PAL Agricultural Lab for Africa recently hosted its Custom Training Program, bringing together 37 participants from thirteen countries, including OCP Africa staff implementing smallholder farming interventions across ten African nations, to develop the skills needed to evaluate their...

In our new postdoc alumni spotlight series, we spoke with Justine Knebelmann, J-PAL '24, about her experience as a postdoctoral researcher at J-PAL Africa

In 2024, J-PAL Southeast Asia (SEA) welcomed two new staff members from the Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) MicroMasters community. Both Hasto and Farhan come from diverse fields outside economics, yet they share a common passion: to pivot their career paths and explore meaningful work...

In this Affiliate Spotlight, learn more about Sarah Baird's work on the microeconomics of health and education in low- and middle-income countries, with an emphasis on gender and youth.

This blog discusses the Economic Mobility Catalog, a tool for boosting effective anti-poverty policies by featuring evidence-backed pathways to economic mobility via synthesized research, implementation best practices, and case studies.