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
Inés Torres is a Policy and Research Associate, where she supports the partnership between the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI), the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations in Spain, and J-PAL Europe. The initiative aims to generate lessons on how to complement the social inclusion effects of a new national minimum income scheme by means of randomised evaluations.
Before joining J-PAL in 2023, Inés worked as a Research Assistant at the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility in Spain (AIReF), a public institution in charge of evaluating the efficiency of public expenditures in areas such as employment, social inclusion, health or education. In this position, Inés worked in the Public Spending Evaluation Division in the assessment of public policies related with health.
Inés holds a M.Sc. in Specialized Economic Analysis, Economics of Public Policy from Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and a double B.Sc. in Economics and Mathematics and Statistics from Complutense University in Madrid (UCM).