The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.

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New Affiliated Professors Join J-PAL

In September, J-PAL welcomed seven new affiliated professors: Scott Carrell (University of California, Davis), Rebecca Dizon-Ross (University of Chicago), Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University), Adam Osman (University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign), Vincent Pons (Harvard), Gautam Rao (Harvard), and Adam Sacarny (Columbia). Their diverse research interests range from Islamic finance to the economics of health care payment policy. Learn more about their research.

Two researchers look at spreadsheet of data

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J-PAL to Support Research Transparency and Reproducibility

J-PAL has been awarded a three-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to promote research transparency and reproducibility. Read more about the objectives of this grant, including new graduate student fellowships to conduct pre-publication reanalyses.

792 ongoing and completed randomized evaluations in 72 countries