The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 750 affiliated researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 750 affiliated researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.
Our affiliated professors are based at 97 universities and conduct randomized evaluations around the world to design, evaluate, and improve programs and policies aimed at reducing poverty. They set their own research agendas, raise funds to support their evaluations, and work with J-PAL staff on research, policy outreach, and training.
Our Board of Directors, which is composed of J-PAL affiliated professors and senior management, provides overall strategic guidance to J-PAL, our sector programs, and regional offices.
We partner with NGOs, governments, donors, multilateral organizations, businesses, and other research centers to conduct randomized evaluations, build research capacity, scale up what works, and promote the use of evidence in decision making.
J-PAL recognizes that there is a lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of economics and in our field of work. Read about what actions we are taking to address this.
We host events around the world and online to share results and policy lessons from randomized evaluations, to build new partnerships between researchers and practitioners, and to train organizations on how to design and conduct randomized evaluations, and use evidence from impact evaluations.
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Based at leading universities around the world, our experts are economists who use randomized evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty. Connect with us for all media inquiries and we'll help you find the right person to shed insight on your story.
J-PAL is based at MIT in Cambridge, MA and has seven regional offices at leading universities in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
J-PAL is based at MIT in Cambridge, MA and has seven regional offices at leading universities in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Our global office is based at the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It serves as the head office for our network of seven independent regional offices.
Led by affiliated professors, J-PAL sectors guide our research and policy work by conducting literature reviews; by managing research initiatives that promote the rigorous evaluation of innovative interventions by affiliates; and by summarizing findings and lessons from randomized evaluations and producing cost-effectiveness analyses to help inform relevant policy debates.
Led by affiliated professors, J-PAL sectors guide our research and policy work by conducting literature reviews; by managing research initiatives that promote the rigorous evaluation of innovative interventions by affiliates; and by summarizing findings and lessons from randomized evaluations and producing cost-effectiveness analyses to help inform relevant policy debates.
How do policies affecting private sector firms impact productivity gaps between higher-income and lower-income countries? How do firms’ own policies impact economic growth and worker welfare?
How can we identify effective policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries that provide financial assistance to low-income families, insuring against shocks and breaking poverty traps?
Dina Abdel Fattah
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Assistant Professor
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American University in Cairo (AUC)
Ama Baafra Abeberese
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Assistant Professor
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Wellesley College
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
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Professor of Human Development and Social Policy; Director, Institute for Child Youth and Family Policy
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Brandeis University
Uzma Afzal
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Research and Teaching Fellow
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Lahore School of Economics
Nikhil Agarwal
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Associate Professor of Economics
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MIT Department of Economics
Leila Agha
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Assistant Professor
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Dartmouth College
Jorge Agüero
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Associate Professor
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University of Connecticut (UConn)
Josefa Aguirre
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Assistant Professor
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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC Chile)
Marcos Agurto
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Professor and Deputy Dean
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Universidad de Piura (UDEP)
Anna Aizer
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Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy
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Brown University
Randall Akee
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Associate Professor
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UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Yonas Alem
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Senior Research Fellow
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University of Gothenburg
Yann Algan
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Professeur d'Economie
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Sciences Po
Martha Alibali
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Professor of Psychology
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Claudia Allende
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Assistant Professor of Economics
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Stanford University
Douglas Almond
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Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
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Columbia University
Miguel Almunia
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Associate Professor
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CUNEF Universidad
Mackenzie Alston
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Assistant Professor
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University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Maria Laura Alzua
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PEP
Shan Aman-Rana
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Assistant Professor
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University of Virginia
Tahir Andrabi
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Professor
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Pomona College
Desmond Ang
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy
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Harvard Kennedy School
Arief Anshory Yusuf
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Professor of Economics
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Universitas Padjajaran
Belinda Archibong
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Assistant Professor of Economics
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Barnard College
Alex Armand
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Assistant Professor
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Nova School of Business and Economics
Carolina Arteaga
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Assistant Professor
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University of Toronto
Edward Asiedu
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Lecturer
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University of Ghana
Ragui Assad
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Professor
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University of Minnesota (UMN)
Juliano Assunção
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Assistant Professor
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Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Alexandra Avdeenko
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Research Director
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Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED)
Pierre Azoulay
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International Programs Professor of Management
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MIT Sloan School of Management
Bocar Ba
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Assistant Professor of Economics
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Duke University
Martha Bailey
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Assistant Professor
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University of California, Los Angeles
Clare Balboni
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3M Career Development Assistant Professor
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MIT Department of Economics
Kate Baldwin
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Assistant Professor
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Yale University
Ana Balsa
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Professor
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Universidad de Montevideo (UM)
Nano Barahona
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Assistance Professor
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University of California, Berkeley
Giorgia Barboni
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Assistant Professor of Finance
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University of Warwick
Tania Barham
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Assistant Professor Economics
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University of Colorado Boulder
Prabhat Barnwal
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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
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Michigan State University (MSU)
Carlo Barone
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Professor
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Sciences Po
Alex Bartik
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Assistant Professor
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University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Travis Baseler
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Assistant Professor
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University of Rochester
Catia Batista
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Associate professor
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Nova University of Lisbon
Michele Battisti
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Assistant Professor
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University of Glasgow
Natalie Bau
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy
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UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Jonathan Bauchet
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Assistant Professor
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Purdue University
Michal Bauer
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Assistant Professor
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Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute (CERGE-EI)
Sebastian Bauhoff
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Assistant Professor of Global Health and Economics