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Dialogue with Prof. Esther Duflo: Good Economics for Post Pandemic Era

Esther Duflo, J-PAL affiliate and co-founder, discusses the challenges and opportunities involved in post-pandemic policymaking.

What Melinda French Gates and Esther Duflo Think Women Need Right Now

Esther Duflo, J-PAL affiliate and co-founder, engages in a conversation about the best ways to empower women economically in the post-pandemic era.

Govt. study calls for an incentive programme for walking

A study by J-PAL affiliates Shilpa Aggarwal and Rebecca Dizon-Ross found that an incentive program to increase walking among diabetics and pre-diabetics had positive effects.

March 2022 Newsletter

In the March 2022 newsletter, we highlight evidence-informed ideas to improve gender equity in Latin America and the Caribbean, a new policy insight from J-PAL's Gender sector that identifies gender-specific barriers to learning, and a new evidence review from J-PAL North America which finds that...

Putting Our Assumptions to the Test

Abhijit Banerjee, J-PAL affiliate and co-founder, shares his path to — and motivations for — thinking like a scientist and relying on experimental evidence.

The Lasting Harm of COVID School Closures

J-PAL affiliate Rachel Glennerster details how urgent, large-scale, and effective action by governments and education leaders can stem the damage the pandemic has done to students’ learning.

Veddis Foundation and J-PAL South Asia set up ASPIRE to accelerate evidence-based policymaking

New Delhi, India: The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia and Veddis Foundation announced the launch of the Alliance for Scaling Policy Impact through Research and Evidence (ASPIRE) today. ASPIRE aims to spur the adoption of anti-poverty policies rooted in scientific evidence...

Government of Delhi Partners with J-PAL South Asia to Unlock High-Quality Administrative Data for Boosting Social and Economic Growth in India’s Capital

The Government of Delhi’s Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC) has partnered with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to systematically leverage high-quality administrative data for implementing policies geared toward stimulating social and economic development in the...