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 295 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 295 affiliated researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.
J-PAL Affiliated Professor
Associate Professor
CEMFI
Monica is a professor at the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) in Madrid, Spain. She is also an ERC Consolidator Grantee and member of the director board of the Review of Economic Studies. Monica’s research interests are in the fields of political economy and economic development. She received her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010.
