J-PAL Europe

J-PAL Europe, based at the Paris School of Economics, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking across Europe by fostering the development of new randomised evaluations and helping partners draw on existing rigorous evidence to design and scale effective programmes. We also support the J-PAL network’s activities in francophone countries worldwide.

Our staff and network of affiliated professors work with governments, civil society actors, and multilaterals to design randomised evaluations that will sharpen our understanding of the effectiveness of different approaches to addressing poverty and climate change. We develop training and capacity building programmes to help a broad range of actors harness the power of rigorous impact evaluations in their work and to help researchers better use these methods. We also support the use of evidence generated from this research to inform more effective social policy and development cooperation programming. 

With over 120 randomised evaluations across Europe, our research spans a broad range of sectors and looks at questions as broad as how to promote access to higher-quality education, how to match jobseekers to better opportunities for work, how to support measures to improve air quality, and how to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian action.