The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
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From research to action: How two Nobel laureates seeded more than just a methodology
An earlier version of this blog was posted in The Week.
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.
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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?
J-PAL affiliated researchers have 986 ongoing and completed randomized evaluations in 83 countries
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Technological innovation on its own won't guarantee smallholder farmer resilience to #climatechange. Research from… ...
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In September 2019, the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA), led by Bill Gates, Kristalina Georgieva, and Ban Ki-moon, urged global leaders to advance climate adaptation solutions for smallholder...
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In recent decades, we’ve seen enormous growth in the number of program evaluations to measure the impacts of various government policies, NGO programs, and other implementers’ work. Our own...
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In 2014, Benefits Data Trust (BDT) partnered with J-PAL North America staff and affiliated researchers Amy Finkelstein (MIT) and Matt Notowidigdo (Northwestern) to design and implement a randomized...
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I first met Michael Kremer in 2009 when I had just joined J-PAL and started work on creating some of our first cost-effectiveness analysis. It was a daunting task because academic papers that so...
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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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