On January 7-8, 2016, J-PAL hosted the Innovations in Public Sector Management policy outreach and partnership development conference, with support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD).

J-PAL Global is organizing an annual Executive Education course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.

J-PAL Europe is organizing a five-day course, in English, led by affiliated professors from J-PAL, that will teach participants how to measure the effects of poverty programs scientifically and help shape better policies through the use of randomized evaluations.

This 2-day course on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one’s own evaluation.

In cooperation with the University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Economics and Business, J-PAL Southeast Asia is organizing a three-day course that will introduce participants to randomized evaluations and how this method can be used to measure the effects of social programs and help shape better...

J-PAL hosted the second talk of its lecture series at MIT, D²P²: Data. Decisions. Public Policy. Dr. Rukmini Banerji (CEO of Pratham) discussed her work with the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) and how the massive citizen-led assessment of children’s learning has led to a national debate...