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Communiqué : les cofondateurs de J-PAL Abhijit Banerjee et Esther Duflo lauréats du prix Nobel d’économie

Abhijit Banerjee et Esther Duflo, cofondateurs de J-PAL, Laboratoire d’Action contre la Pauvreté, ainsi que Michael Kremer, affilié de longue date à J-PAL, ont reçu conjointement le prix de la Banque de Suède en sciences économique en mémoire d’Alfred Nobel. Ce prix leur a été décerné « pour leur...

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.

Behavioral Economics Could Increase Obamacare Enrollment and Stabilize Markets

J-PAL affiliate Wesley Yin and his colleagues have recently completed a randomized evaluation on interventions used to combat the frictions in the take-up of health insurance in California.

Work of the Future Task Force report calls attention to exacerbated inequality due to technology

The Task Force, co-chaired by J-PAL affiliate David Autor, aims to “understand the relationships between emerging technologies and work, and to explore strategies to enable a future of shared prosperity.”

September 2019 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's inaugural monthly newsletter highlights lessons from new research on housing mobility and economic opportunity, a blog series celebrating six years of the Health Care Delivery Initiative, and an evidence review on strategies to reduce and prevent homelessness.