J-PAL North America is a regional office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a global network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty. Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by...

At J-PAL North America, we work across a number of program areas to better understand which anti-poverty programs and policies work and why.

J-PAL North America is committed to testing strategies and developing resources to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion among their staff, network of researchers and partners, and underrepresented scholars in the economics field.

J-PAL North America’s Evidence Portal provides a snapshot of the research in North America by J-PAL affiliates and invited researchers across various social policy areas related to poverty alleviation. To date, J-PAL affiliated researchers have conducted over 265 ongoing or completed randomized...

How can we design more effective social programmes across Europe? J-PAL affiliated researchers focus on the contribution made by randomised evaluations to the development of high-quality evidence for informing social policy.