Vincent Pons is the Byron Wein Professor of Business Administration in the Harvard Business School’s Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. He studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how to make rights and services more accessible to...

Silvia Prina is an Associate Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on understanding the behavior of the poor for the purpose of uncovering potential strategies to improve their lives. Silvia studies the impact of financial access on the welfare and decision-making...

Marcos A. Rangel is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Previously, Rangel was an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Sao Paulo and a Visiting Associate Professor of Public and...

Imran Rasul is a Professor of Economics at University College London, Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Co-Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy. His...

Gautam Rao is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research seeks to bring insights from psychology to bear on topics in...

Simon Quinn is an Associate Professor at the Imperial College Business School. Simon studies development economics with a focus on firms. Currently, Simon is researching entrepreneurship and networks, youth unemployment and labor market access, novel models of microfinance, and community...

Roland Rathelot is a Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Economie Statistique (CREST). His areas of interest include labor economics, public economics and economics of immigration, with a particular focus on the spatial dimension. He is currently conducting randomized evaluations of counseling...

Natalia Rigol is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. She studies the design, targeting, and delivery of financial products to the world’s poorest people, with a particular focus on financial inclusion for women. Currently, Natalia is researching the interaction between financial...

Emma Riley is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the impact of digital financial services, like mobile money and mobile banking services, on woman-owned enterprises and their households. She also investigates the impact of anti-poverty programs...

Erin Kelley is an Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and a Consultant with the Development Impact Evaluation Department at the World Bank. Her research focuses on firm growth, refugee welfare, and technology adoption. Erin's ongoing projects...

Edward Okeke is a Senior Economist at RAND and a Professor of Policy Analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. His research lies at the intersection of health and development, including the returns to health care in the formal sector, adoption of preventive health technologies, investments in...

Tania Barham is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She also serves as the Director of the Health and Society program at the Institute of Behavioral Science.

Arkadev Ghosh is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke University.

Audrey Cabral joined J-PAL in 2019 and works as Human Resources Associate for the North America regional office.