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 Board of Directors, which is composed of J-PAL affiliated professors and senior management, provides overall strategic guidance to J-PAL, our sector programs, and regional offices.
J-PAL recognizes that there is a lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of economics and in our field of work. Read about what actions we are taking to address this.
We host events around the world and online to share results and policy lessons from randomized evaluations, to build new partnerships between researchers and practitioners, and to train organizations on how to design and conduct randomized evaluations, and use evidence from impact evaluations.
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Based at leading universities around the world, our experts are economists who use randomized evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty. Connect with us for all media inquiries and we'll help you find the right person to shed insight on your story.
J-PAL is based at MIT in Cambridge, MA and has seven regional offices at leading universities in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
J-PAL is based at MIT in Cambridge, MA and has seven regional offices at leading universities in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Our global office is based at the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It serves as the head office for our network of seven independent regional offices.
Led by affiliated professors, J-PAL sectors guide our research and policy work by conducting literature reviews; by managing research initiatives that promote the rigorous evaluation of innovative interventions by affiliates; and by summarizing findings and lessons from randomized evaluations and producing cost-effectiveness analyses to help inform relevant policy debates.
Led by affiliated professors, J-PAL sectors guide our research and policy work by conducting literature reviews; by managing research initiatives that promote the rigorous evaluation of innovative interventions by affiliates; and by summarizing findings and lessons from randomized evaluations and producing cost-effectiveness analyses to help inform relevant policy debates.
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Register for J-PAL’s upcoming webinar, Covid Dialogues: Cash Grants to Support Female Entrepreneurs, on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 9:00am ET / 4:00pm EAT.
Mairelys Domínguez Pichardo is a Project Associate at J-PAL LAC where she helps manage the implementation of training courses and workshops, and also supports the coordination of logistics for events organized by J-PAL LAC.
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Researchers conducted an online survey to understand the welfare consequences of the pandemic for individuals, particularly the experiences of women related to gender-based violence (GBV) and unpaid care work in Indonesia. This survey involved 1,000 online survey respondents and 203 phone interview...
Aditi Gupta is a Research Manager at J-PAL where she works on the Rajasthan Scoping Study that aims to design, implement, and test methods for efficient electricity distribution to the agricultural farmers in the state.
José Ignacio Longueira is a Survey Associate at J-PAL LAC where he works as a field supervisor for a pension savings program and is participating in the evaluation of a project on the inclusion and resettlement of migrants.
Imran Rasul is a Professor in the Department of Economics at University College London. His areas of interest focus on labor economics and household economics.
Vishnu Padmanabhan is a Policy Manager at J-PAL South Asia where he supports regional outreach activities to promote evidence-based policy and programming for poverty alleviation.
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation in Chile to study the impact of altering high school students’ beliefs about the returns of college degrees on their decisions to invest in college preparation and which program they choose.
Stefano DellaVigna is the Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in behavioral economics and is a co-director of the Initiative for Behavioral...
Supreet Kaur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is in development economics and behavioral economics, with a focus on labor markets.
Researchers are evaluating the effects of providing farmers with access to maize processing services that could improve maize quality on their input decisions.
Researchers partnered with financial providers in the United Kingdom to evaluate the effectiveness of various disclosure designs aimed at supporting consumers’ financial decisions across savings products. Although most disclosures increased the number of consumers that switched to higher-yielding savings account, the effects were relatively modest, even among those who received the most effectively designed disclosure and those with substantial financial incentives to switch. These findings suggest that low attention limits the potential of financial disclosures and that disclosures need to be more explicitly designed to better capture consumers' attention.