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.
Policy and Research Associate, J-PAL Europe
Zahra Boudalaoui-Buresi is a Policy and Research Associate at J-PAL Europe for the Innovation, Data and Experiments in Education (IDEE) programme. IDEE is an 8-year government-funded initiative aimed at supporting the development of experimental research in education in France.
Before joining J-PAL in 2023, Zahra worked as a Research Officer at the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO), a What Works Center for higher education based in London. Prior to that, she interned in a social policy research team at the European Parliament in Brussels, and at the Interministerial Directorate for Public Transformation (DITP) in Paris.
Zahra holds a master’s degree in international social and public policy from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a bachelor’s degree in economics and sociology from Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) University.