The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Blog
How can the Nobel-winning “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” contribute to research on job creation?
Job creation is an all-time favorite talking point for politicians around the world as economies adapt to new trade patterns and technological innovation causes tectonic shifts in older industries. But how do we actually create more jobs?
Publication
Mind the Gap: Aligning Immigrant Students' Aspirations to Abilities
Offering tutoring and career counseling to high-ability immigrant students closed the educational gap between native-born and immigrant boys in Italy.
News
Nobel economics prize winner: I want to inspire women
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer win Nobel prize for economics for work that has "dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice".
Evaluation
Incentives to Learn: A Merit-Based Girls' Scholarship Program in Kenya
Approximately 85 percent of primary school age children in western Kenya are enrolled in school, but only about one-third of students finish primary school. This project was introduced in part to assist families of high-achieving girls to cover the cost of school fees, supplies, and activities.
J-PAL affiliated researchers have 983 ongoing and completed randomized evaluations in 83 countries
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An earlier version of this blog was posted in The Week . More than a decade ago, I met Abhijit Banerjee and...
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I was in the mountains of Montana with a patchy connection when the 2019 Economics Nobel Prize was announced. As the news spread across time zones, my phone’s notifications kept buzzing. While I wasn’t at home with my J-PAL colleagues to toast the new laureates, I was incredibly inspired by the spirit of community and celebration resonating across the globe on their behalf.
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“We want to create more and better jobs.” Sound familiar? Job creation is an all-time favorite talking point for politicians around the world, as economies adapt to new trade patterns and...
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This post first appeared on the Teaching at the Right Level blog . It’s late 2016, and I’m standing at the back of a classroom in...
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Automation, artificial intelligence, and other new technologies have the potential to make work more efficient and expand the possibilities of what we can do and create. These same technologies, however, have serious implications for the future of our economy and labor market: some jobs will become obsolete, while others will be created. With the rise in income inequality and stagnating educational attainment, these shifts are likely to disproportionately harm lower-wage workers. From newspaper headlines to the presidential debate stage, public discourse on the work of the future has surged in recent years with many voicing great concern.
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