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 900 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.
On February 10, 2020 at 2 p.m. EST, J-PAL North America hosted a webinar on how organizations can use randomized evaluations to generate new and widely applicable lessons about which strategies are most effective at reducing homelessness and promoting housing stability.
The webinar provided additional information about J-PAL North America's Housing Stability Evaluation Incubator, through which organizations can apply for technical assistance and funding to develop one or more high-quality randomized evaluations related to reducing homelessness.
The webinar featured the following speakers, who discussed their partnership on an evaluation of the Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative (YFHPI) in King County, Washington:
The evaluation of YFHPI will be the largest randomized controlled trial of homelessness prevention services to date and will compare two different approaches to homelessness prevention.
Watch the recording of the webinar here: