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.
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The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (JEEViKA), in collaboration with Bandhan-Konnagar and J-PAL South Asia, hosted the launch of a new playbook capturing five years of learnings from Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY)—the world’s first government-led scale-up of the Graduation Approach. The...
J-PAL South Asia participated in the Jameel C40 Urban Planning Climate Labs convening in Chennai, engaging with city leaders and practitioners on integrating climate action into India’s urban governance systems.
At Charcha 2022, J-PAL South Asia’s ASPIRE team partnered with the Veddis Foundation to organize three high-impact sessions, marking ASPIRE’s first public introduction. Anchored in the event's themes of livelihoods and entrepreneurship, the sessions explored strategies to strengthen government...
On July 11, 2024, J-PAL South Asia hosted an exclusive roundtable in New Delhi with Nobel Laureate and J-PAL Co-Founder Professor Abhijit Banerjee, bringing together senior leaders from government, philanthropy, and civil society to reimagine how India can tackle extreme poverty through scalable...
J-PAL South Asia participated in the Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2024 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding under the SARWA initiative, in the presence of state government leadership. The booth showcased innovative research including the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), engaging over 70 attendees.
J-PAL North America's August newsletter features the Evidence Effect series from J-PAL Global, the launch of our new Initiative for Effective US Crime Policy, and a recent Research Staff Training.
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