Eventos

This one-day gathering brought together a small group of researchers and donors to discuss several current debates and challenges in measuring women’s empowerment and to generate a practical set of recommendations on how researchers, practitioners, and donors can improve the ways we measure...

China’s rise as an economic power has significantly shifted the patterns of world trade and challenged existing empirical research about how labor markets react to trade shocks. Join us today at 4pm Eastern to learn about the impacts of Chinese growth on US consumers, labor markets, and inequality.

Join J-PAL director Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) today at 4pm EDT for a live stream discussion of the economics and politics behind India's recent demonetization, partly based on recent field research. The Government of India's decision to no longer accept 500 and 1,000 rupee notes as legal tender is one...

While technology has the potential to revolutionize education, it creates the risk of leaving those without access behind and exacerbating the already stark divides in educational opportunity and achievement in the U.S. Experts recently gathered at MIT to discuss how we can use rigorous research to...

Please join Dr Rachel Glennerster (Executive Director, J-PAL) and J-PAL Africa (UCT) at the Wits School of Governance on Monday, 13 March for a session on the potential of randomised evaluations to measure impact and inform policy design where details matter for take-up, effectiveness, cost and more...

State and local government leaders, leading scholars, and social service providers gathered in Cambridge to share their first-hand experiences of overcoming practical and political challenges to evaluating government programs, with a focus on crime and violence prevention, maternal and child health...