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.
J-PAL Affiliated Professor
Clinical Associate Professor of Development Economics
Northwestern University
Andrew Dillon is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management and a Research Associate Professor at the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University where he is the Director of the Research Methods Cluster. His research focuses on how improving productivity increases welfare in LMIC countries and the methods and measures that establish these causal relationships. His current research focuses on scaling private sector innovations, market organization in developing countries, and productivity-enhancing investments that households may make in health and nutrition, new agricultural technologies, and education. He received his PhD in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.