J-PAL Norteamérica | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

J-PAL North America, based at MIT, leads J-PAL’s work in the North America region. J-PAL North America conducts randomized evaluations, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking, and helps partners scale up effective programs.

Our work spans a wide range of sectors including health care, housing, criminal justice, education, and economic mobility. We leverage research by affiliated professors from universities across the continent and a full-time staff of researchers, policy experts, and administrative professionals to generate and disseminate rigorous evidence about which anti-poverty social policies work and why.

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Existen 246 evaluaciones aleatorizadas, finalizadas o en curso en Norteamérica.

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Standing in Solidarity with Black Communities

We at J-PAL North America grieve and condemn the ongoing displays of police violence and systemic racism in the United States and acknowledge the physical and emotional distress they cause. This grief and trauma is especially deep for Black communities, and for our staff, partners, and affiliated researchers who belong to them.

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Dadisman & Schneider: Tutoring Can Help Reverse COVID-Related Learning Loss. 6 Principles for Doing It Right

We have an opportunity to leverage this evidence to craft a tutoring-based response to the nation’s massive COVID learning losses. Here are some broad principles we believe must be deployed to get the most out of any tutoring initiative.

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The crisis of mistrust and COVID-19: Race and re-imagining tracing and vaccination

COVID-19 has had a disproportionate effect on African Americans and it's time to re-imagine tracing and vaccination in order to control the virus.

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Mayor de Blasio, Bring Back Summer Jobs

J-PAL affiliates Sara Heller and Judd Kessler critique the decision to cancel New York's summer youth employment program this year, drawing on their research findings about the positive impacts of such programs.

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"In a new study by MIT professors Esther Duflo, Ben Olken, and Abhijit Banerjee, and physicians Marcella Alsan and Fatima Cody Stanford, along with other doctors and economists, public health video messages featuring a racially diverse set of physicians were found to decrease knowledge gaps about Covid-19 symptoms and transmission — generating important lessons about how we communicate about, and work to mitigate the effects of, the virus." https://news.mit.edu/2021/covid-19-communications-featuring-racially-diverse-physicians-can-improve-health-outcomes-0222

February 24th
Can digital ID systems help achieve accurate targeting and efficiency in public programs? This is one of the key questions in the research agenda of the Digital Identification and Finance Initiative (DigiFI) based at J-PAL Africa. Read our blog on Digital IDs here: j-p.al/digifi-blog-digital-id

February 19th
Our King Climate Action Initiative’s first funding cycle is supporting scaling and research projects across climate change mitigation, pollution reduction, adaption, and energy access. These projects are a critical first step in building a longer playbook of evidence-based and cost-effective climate change solutions. Learn more: https://j-p.al/kcai-rfp1f

February 4th
Without adaptation solutions, it’s predicted that climate change and increased global temperatures will harm 500 million small farms. Our affiliated researchers are exploring strategies for building climate change resilience: Learn more: https://j-p.al/3ar

January 29th
Have you checked out our library of practical resources for running (and teaching) randomized evaluations recently? This toolkit walks you through the research process from start to finish and includes everything from technical guidance to best practices for managing a survey team. https://www.povertyactionlab.org/research-resources?view=toc

January 21st

Taking action on state and local policy priorities

This past fall, the J-PAL North America State and Local Innovation Initiative hosted a series of webinars to discuss how state and local governments can use lessons from randomized evaluations to...

1 week 6 days ago

Opportunities for state and local policy responses to climate change: A recap from the State and Local Webinar Series

In this post, J-PAL America highlights key takeaways from the “State and Local Policy Responses to Climate Change” webinar held on October 7, 2020, including the momentum of efforts around climate...

1 month ago

J-PAL North America's reflections on 2020

J-PAL North America Executive Director Mary Ann Bates reflects on the last year in this post.

2 months 1 week ago

Promoting upward mobility in partnership with state and local governments: A blueprint for future evaluations

This blog post is the final piece in a series on how state and local governments in the United States can promote upward mobility in their communities. It is part of J-PAL North America’s work to...

2 months 1 week ago

Promoting upward mobility in partnership with state and local governments: The intersection of gender, race, health, and poverty alleviation

This blog post is part two of three in a series on how state and local governments in the United States can promote upward mobility in their communities. It is part of J-PAL North America’s work to...

3 months 2 weeks ago