Just six days away from the final vote in a sensational election, J-PAL is excited to host Dr. Donald Green to dig in to what we know about how political campaigns mobilize and persuade voters. His talk will focus particularly on how randomized evaluations have transformed the way campaigns operate.

At this two-day conference in Cambridge, health care experts and practitioners explored opportunities for research, innovation, and evidence-informed policymaking to address a range of national health care challenges.

On December 6, J-PAL and the Center for Global Development (CGD) will host an event to take stock of the evidence and impact evaluation movement and its promise for improving social policy in developing countries. Join the live stream.

State and local government leaders, leading scholars, and social service providers gathered in Cambridge to share their first-hand experiences of overcoming practical and political challenges to evaluating government programs, with a focus on crime and violence prevention, maternal and child health...

The J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative supports US state and local leaders in using randomized evaluations to generate new and widely applicable lessons about which programs work, which work best, and why. On Thursday, December 8th at 1:00pm Eastern, J-PAL North America hosted a webinar to...

This five-day program on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one’s own evaluation.The course is designed for managers and researchers from NGOs, governments, international development...

While technology has the potential to revolutionize education, it creates the risk of leaving those without access behind and exacerbating the already stark divides in educational opportunity and achievement in the U.S. Experts recently gathered at MIT to discuss how we can use rigorous research to...

Join J-PAL director Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) today at 4pm EDT for a live stream discussion of the economics and politics behind India's recent demonetization, partly based on recent field research. The Government of India's decision to no longer accept 500 and 1,000 rupee notes as legal tender is one...

China’s rise as an economic power has significantly shifted the patterns of world trade and challenged existing empirical research about how labor markets react to trade shocks. Join us today at 4pm Eastern to learn about the impacts of Chinese growth on US consumers, labor markets, and inequality.

Please join Dr Rachel Glennerster (Executive Director, J-PAL) and J-PAL Africa (UCT) at the Wits School of Governance on Monday, 13 March for a session on the potential of randomised evaluations to measure impact and inform policy design where details matter for take-up, effectiveness, cost and more...