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Infosys Science Foundation announces prize winners for 2024

The Infosys Prize 2024 in Economics is awarded to Arun Chandrasekhar, Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, for his contribution to the study of social and economic networks, using innovative data sets and drawing on theoretical methods from machine learning and computer science.

The Inter-American Development Bank and J-PAL LAC Launch Collaborative Visiting Program to Foster Evidence-Based Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Latin America and the Caribbean (J-PAL LAC) have officially launched a new Visiting Researcher Program, marking a new phase in the strategic collaboration between the two entities.

How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum

Why we must treat decarbonization policies as an experiment and put in place measures now to evaluate what works best.

October 2024 J-PAL LAC newsletter: J-PAL LAC turns fifteen

This year, J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) celebrates fifteen years of using evidence to inform policy and alleviate poverty in the regionThis year, J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) celebrates fifteen years of using evidence to inform policy and alleviate poverty in the region...

October 2024 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's October newsletter features an updated version of our Health Care Delivery Initiative Evidence Wrap-Up, a new video on our work with housing choice vouchers, and a blog on positionality statements in economics research.

Government of Karnataka partners with J-PAL South Asia to accelerate and scale policy innovations in school education

The Government of Karnataka has partnered with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to set up a “learning lab” to solve some of the biggest challenges in school education through science and data.

Three Receive Nobel in Economics for Research on Global Inequality

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson shared the award for their work on explaining the gaps in prosperity between nations.

Nobel economics prize awarded for studies of prosperity gaps between countries

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson examined how different kinds of European colonization led to some nations being rich and others poor.