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New health insurance insights: Economists analyze how patients and health care providers value Medicaid

J-PAL affiliate, Amy Finkelstein, and co-authors analyze how patients and health care providers value Medicaid in a new analysis of a randomized health insurance program in Oregon

How the economics Nobel laureates’ methods could help fight poverty in the U.S.

Vincent Quan, Associate Director of Policy at J-PAL North America, reflects on what we've learned from randomized evaluations in the U.S.

Zipcode Destiny: The Persistent Power of Place and Education

NPR's Hidden Brain speak with J-PAL affiliate, Raj Chetty, on economic mobility in the US

Pilot program to test free and discounted Metro fare cards for low-income D.C. residents

A pilot program funded by J-PAL North America's State and Local Innovation Initiative aims to elimate costs of transportation for more than 1,000 low-income residents in Washington D.C.

New research partnership evaluates innovation in family engagement

J-PAL North America is partnering with TalkingPoints multilingual family engagement platform assess the intervention's impact on student achievement.

November 2019 North America Newsletter

In J-PAL North America's November newsletter, we celebrate J-PAL founders winning the Nobel Prize, introduce nine new partners, and recap Research Staff Training.

Los co-fundadores de J-PAL Abhijit Banerjee y Esther Duflo recibieron el Premio Nobel de Economía

Los co-fundadores del Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Abhijit Banerjee y Esther Duflo, y el profesor afiliado de J-PAL, Michael Kremer, recibieron el Premio en Ciencias Económicas en memoria de Alfred Nobel 2019. El premio fue otorgado “por su aproximación experimental al alivio de la...

October 2019 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America October newsletter highlights a new Evaluation Toolkit on how to design and implement randomized evaluations, results from two randomized evaluations of workplace wellness programs, and a case study building on the generalizability framework.