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Blog: Michael Greenstone testifies to Congress on the social cost of carbon

“Ultimately, society needs to balance the costs to our economy of mitigating climate change today with climate damages. Wishing that we did not face this tradeoff will not make it go away.” J-PAL affiliate Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago and EPIC) testified to Congress on how policymakers...

April 2017 Newsletter

As Earth Day approaches on April 22, we're highlighting J-PAL affiliated professors' 38 studies within our dedicated Environment & Energy sector. Researchers in the J-PAL network have shown that randomized evaluations have the potential to provide key policy insights, from industrial pollution...

To count India’s cashless, and the without-cash, need is to reverse how we identify poverty

Gautam Patel, J-PAL South Asia Senior Policy Manager proposes some reverse thinking to identify India's poorest: asking them to identify themselves and apply for benefits. Citing evidence from a randomized evaluation in Indonesia, this opinion piece in the Hindustan Times proposes India test a...