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.
Wakil Ketua, Education
J-PAL Affiliated Professor
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
University of Toronto
Philip Oreopoulos is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research. He has held previous visiting appointments at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an Editor at the Journal of Labor Economics. Philip's current work focuses on education policy. He often examines this field by initiating and implementing large-scale field experiments, with the goal of producing convincing evidence for public policy decisions.
Philip serves as Co-Chair of J-PAL's Education sector and Co-Chair of the Improving Education Outcomes in North America portfolio. He has also served on the review boards of J-PAL North America's Social Policy Research Initiative and Education, Technology, and Opportunity Initiative.
Philip received his PhD from the University of California, at Berkeley and his MA from the University of British Columbia.