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  • About

    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 1,000 researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.

    • Overview

      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 1,000 researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.

    • Affiliated Professors

      Our affiliated professors are based at over 120 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.

    • Invited Researchers
    • J-PAL Scholars
    • Board
      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.
    • Staff
    • Strengthening Our Work

      Our research, policy, and training work is fundamentally better when it is informed by a broad range of perspectives.

    • Code of Conduct
    • Initiatives
      J-PAL initiatives concentrate funding and other resources around priority topics for which rigorous policy-relevant research is urgently needed.
    • Events
      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.
    • Blog
      News, ideas, and analysis from J-PAL staff and affiliated professors.
    • News
      Browse news articles about J-PAL and our affiliated professors, read our press releases and monthly global and research newsletters, and connect with us for media inquiries.
    • Press Room
      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.
  • Offices
    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.
    • Overview
      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.
    • Global
      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.
    • Africa
      J-PAL Africa is based at the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
    • Europe
      J-PAL Europe is based at the Paris School of Economics in France.
    • Latin America and the Caribbean
      J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean is based at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
    • Middle East and North Africa
      J-PAL MENA is based at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
    • North America
      J-PAL North America is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
    • South Asia
      J-PAL South Asia is based at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) in India.
    • Southeast Asia
      J-PAL Southeast Asia is based at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Indonesia (FEB UI).
  • Sectors
    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.
    • Overview
      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.
    • Agriculture
      How can we encourage small farmers to adopt proven agricultural practices and improve their yields and profitability?
    • Crime, Violence, and Conflict
      What are the causes and consequences of crime, violence, and conflict and how can policy responses improve outcomes for those affected?
    • Education
      How can students receive high-quality schooling that will help them, their families, and their communities truly realize the promise of education?
    • Environment, Energy, and Climate Change
      How can we increase access to energy, reduce pollution, and mitigate and build resilience to climate change?
    • Finance
      How can financial products and services be more affordable, appropriate, and accessible to underserved households and businesses?
    • Firms
      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?
    • Gender
      How can we reduce gender inequality and ensure that social programs are sensitive to existing gender dynamics?
    • Health
      How can we increase access to and delivery of quality health care services and effectively promote healthy behaviors?
    • Labor Markets
      How can we help people find and keep work, particularly young people entering the workforce?
    • Political Economy and Governance
      What are the causes and consequences of poor governance and how can policy improve public service delivery?
    • Social Protection
      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?
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Nicholas Bloom

Nicholas Bloom is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. He is also the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a fellow of the Centre for Economic...
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Thomas Kane

Thomas Kane is the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Between 2009 and 2012, he directed the Measures of Effective Teaching project for the Gates Foundation.
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Melissa Kearney

Melissa S. Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Kearney's research focuses on issues of social policy, poverty, and inequality and her work examines the effect of government programs and economic conditions on the behaviors and outcomes of economically...
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Michael Callen

Michael Callen is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. His recent work uses experiments to identify ways to address accountability and service delivery failures in the public sector, working primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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Matthew Notowidigdo

Matthew Notowidigdo is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Scientific Director of J-PAL North America. His research broadly focuses on labor and health economics. He studies the causes and economic consequences of unemployment duration and insurance, as...
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Neale Mahoney

Neale Mahoney is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, the George P. Shultz Fellow at SIEPR, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2022-2023, he was a Special Policy Advisor for Economic Policy in the White House National Economic Council. Mahoney is an...
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Tanguy Bernard

Tanguy Bernard is a Professor at the University of Bordeaux. His research interests include development economics, agricultural economics, and African studies.
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Sule Alan

Sule Alan is a Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science at Cornell University and Bilkent University, Turkiye. Her research interests include education, education and social policy evaluations, human and social capital formation, and gender.
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Mauricio Romero

Mauricio Romero is an Associate Professor of Economics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Mauricio studies bottlenecks that impede high-quality government provision of education, health care, and environmental protection and has conducted research in Colombia, Tanzania, Kenya, and...
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Paolo Pinotti

Paolo Pinotti is a Professor at Bocconi University. His research interests include applied econometrics, political economics, economics of crime, and immigration. Paolo also serves as the director of the CLEAN Unit on the economics of crime at the Baffi-Carefin Center and coordinator of Fondazione...
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Will Dobbie

Will Dobbie is a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Christopher Palmer

Christopher Palmer is the Albert and Jeanne Clear Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on how credit, real estate, and labor markets respond to periods of significant upheaval. His recent experimental work...
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Hunt Allcott

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Jack Willis

Jack Willis is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His research interests include the financial lives of the poor, the functioning of rural markets and institutions, and learning and technology adoption. He has extensive experience running randomized evaluations in Kenya. He...
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Stefan Dercon

Stefan Dercon is a Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department of the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Jesus College.

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