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.
There have been tremendous gains in school enrollment in developing countries over the last decades, but school quality is lagging behind. Too many children leave schools having learnt very little. In this conference we will discuss the roots of this failure, and what can be done about it. The conference will feature Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, the founders of J-PAL and authors of Poor Economics, Madhav Chavan and Rukmini Banerji, the founder and the CEO of the NGO Pratham, one of the world’s largest and most effective organizations working on education, and the director of the Harvard Laboratory of Developmental Studies, Elizabeth Spelke.
This event will take place on June 26 2018 from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm in the Amphitheater of the Paris School of Economics, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris.
Please note that registration is mandatory. To register click here.