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 1,100 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 1,100 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 over 130 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 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?
Zeina Ossama is a Policy, Training and Events Associate in J-PAL Middle East and North Africa, based at the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development under the Egypt Impact Lab. I
Aparna Krishnan leads J-PAL South Asia's Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) Lab, a dedicated team within J-PAL SA, with a focus on encouraging use of administrative data in research and policy.
Murali Mallikarjunan supports the partnership with the State Government of Tamil Nadu(GoTN) to institutionalize an evidence informed approach to policymaking.
M Srinivasa Rao Mittapally is a Finance and Administration Manager at J-PAL South Asia. He holds a Master's in Commerce from Osmania University and possesses a total of 12 years of experience in the development sector.
Gabriel Charlotte Wajong is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where she currently works on interventions that aim to reduce the rate of child marriage in Indonesia.
Khushi is a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL South Asia, working with the Environment, Energy, and Climate Change sector within the Policy, Training, and Communications vertical.
Michala Riis-Vestergaard is a Senior Research, Education, and Training Manager at J-PAL Global where she works on developing and delivering training courses on impact evaluation for policymakers and researchers, including J-PAL’s Evaluating Social Programs course and online course offerings.
Katrina Jessoe is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis. Her current research focuses on environmental, energy, and resource economics and regulation.
Joshua Blumenstock is an Associate Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is a Co-Director of the Global Policy Lab and the Co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action.