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.
Research Associate, J-PAL Middle East and North Africa
Yasmin Eid is a Research Associate at J-PAL Middle East and North Africa where she work on projects that focus on evaluating the impact of different types of micro equity on the living standards of small farmers and examine the effects of lending with different interest rates on entrepreneurs’ decision making.
Prior to joining J-PAL in 2024, she worked as an Assistant Lecturer of Economics at University of London international program at Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport for two years. She also worked as a researcher at different public and private institutions, including the Egyptian Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center and Abu Dhabi University.
Yasmine holds a Master of Science degree in development economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the British University in Egypt.