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“Ultimately, society needs to balance the costs to our economy of mitigating climate change today with climate damages. Wishing that we did not face this tradeoff will not make it go away.” J-PAL affiliate Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago and EPIC) testified to Congress on how policymakers...

There's plenty of bipartisan support for the idea. But how do you go about building a system of evidence-based policymaking, especially in an era of tight budgets and hard choices? In this op-ed, our executive director Quentin Palfrey offers five concrete steps that state and local policymakers can...

Listen to an NPR segment with Jens Ludwig, Co-Chair of J-PAL's Crime, Violence, and Conflict sector, on his research on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with youth in Chicago.