J-PAL Asia del Sur | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

J-PAL South Asia, based at the Institute for Financial Management and Research in India, leads J-PAL’s work in the South Asia region. J-PAL South Asia conducts randomised evaluations, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking, and helps partners scale up effective programmes.

We have a growing number of partnerships in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In 2011, we were selected to host the South Asia Center for CLEAR, a global initiative coordinated by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group. Under this initiative, we host a knowledge sharing roundtable series and equip practitioners with the expertise to carry out rigorous evaluations through training courses, advisory services, and joint research projects.

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Explore the J-PAL website to learn more about who we are, what we do, where we work, and how to engage with the J-PAL South Asia team.

Existen 199 evaluaciones aleatorizadas, finalizadas o en curso en Sur de Asia.

News

Averting a Crisis in Preventive Healthcare

Shagun Sabarwal, Director of Policy, Training, and Communications for J-PAL South Asia, shares rigorous evidence on what works to improve take-up of preventive health services following a recent drop in use caused by COVID in India.

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Blog

Voices from the field: Enumerator spotlight

J-PAL affiliates have now conducted over 1,000 randomized evaluations in 84 countries, scaling up a Nobel Prize-winning approach to poverty alleviation research. To celebrate this milestone, we’re highlighting the people who have facilitated this research throughout the years.

Women stand in line waiting to cast their vote at a polling station in in Barpeta, Assam, India.

Blog

Can information lead to better voting decisions? Evidence from information campaigns in India

Out of 539 winners in India’s 2019 general election for the lower house of Parliament, 29 percent have, at some point, been charged with serious criminal cases, including cases related to rape, murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, and crimes against women. Why do voters elect criminal politicians...

Update

Release: Government of Odisha partners with J-PAL South Asia to maximize the impact of anti-poverty programs

The Government of Odisha signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to engage in a strategic evidence-based approach to policymaking.

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J-PAL Africa seeks a Cape Town-based Senior Data Associate to support the development and work of the J-PAL Africa IDEA Lab. J-PAL’s Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) initiative supports governments, firms, and non-profit organizations who want to make their administrative data accessible to researchers; analyze it to improve decision-making; and use it to design and evaluate innovative programs that contribute to alleviating poverty. The J-PAL Africa IDEA Lab is being established to support this work in South Africa through long-term partnerships with local governments and other data providers. Learn more and apply: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/senior-data-associate-j-pal-africa-103328

June 30th
June 30th
Research from the World Health Organization suggests incidences of emotional, physical, and sexual violence are likely to increase as women are confined to their homes by COVID-19 lockdown measures. How can existing evidence inform the design of new programs to combat intimate partner violence? j-p.al/gbv

June 18th
*Register for J-PAL's free, open, and virtual Evaluating Social Programs series in June!* Our flagship ExecEd course, Evaluating Social Programs, equips participants with the resources and knowledge to design, use, and interpret evidence from impact evaluations of social programs. Due to COVID-19, this year we are offering taste of the Evaluating Social Programs course through a series of five webinars, free and open to the public. Check out the attached agenda, and register here: https://j-p.al/j8t

May 29th
Earlier this year, J-PAL Europe, Fondation Tocqueville, and Community Jameel hosted a forum on harnessing the power of rigorous evidence to promote the social inclusion of migrants in Europe. 📽️ Here’s a look back at what went on:

May 26th

Affiliate Spotlight: Karthik Muralidharan

Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego and also serves as a J-PAL Board member and co-chair of the Education sector. A...

3 months 3 weeks ago

Measuring social attitudes and norms in impact evaluations: Examples from India

Social norms also often persist despite economic growth, and can negatively impact development outcomes. Evaluating the impact of interventions targeting social norms can be useful to understand how...

3 months 3 weeks ago

Voices from the field: Enumerator spotlight

3 months 3 weeks ago

Tanya Sethi, J-PAL ’14, is tackling the big questions in aid and policy

In the next installment of our Alumni Spotlight series, we speak with Tanya Sethi, a former senior policy associate at J-PAL South Asia. Tanya joined J-PAL South Asia’s policy team after receiving a...

5 months 4 weeks ago

How this year’s Nobel Prize winners helped shape an education revolution in Africa

TaRL Africa team member Ashleigh Morrell reflects on how Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee helped pave the way for a quiet Teaching at the Right Level revolution across schools in...

8 months ago