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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 1,100 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 1,100 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 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.

      • 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
    • Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Middle East and North Africa
      J-PAL MENA is based at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
    • North America
    • South Asia
    • 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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Marcos Rangel

Marcos A. Rangel is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Previously, Rangel was an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Sao Paulo and a Visiting Associate Professor of Public and...
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Mathias Sinning

Mathias Sinning is a Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy of the Australian National University (ANU). His research in applied econometrics focuses on issues related to treatment effect estimation and policy evaluation. He is particularly interested in the development and...
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Gautam Rao

Gautam Rao is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research seeks to bring insights from psychology to bear on topics in...
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Craig McIntosh

Craig McIntosh is a Professor of Economics in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. He is a development economist whose work focuses on the evaluation of programs intended to contribute to the financial livelihoods of poor households. He has worked on...
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Jens Ludwig

Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and Co-Director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab. He also serves as non-resident Senior Fellow in Economic...
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Eliana La Ferrara

Eliana La Ferrara is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Her research focuses on the economics of conflict, ethnicity, social norms, institutions, and the media.
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Owen Ozier

Owen Ozier is an Associate Professor of Economics at Williams College. His research focuses on health, education, and economic decisions in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is on leave from the World Bank, where he is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group, Human Development Team.
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Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro is George Pardee Jr. Family Chair of International Sustainable Development Associate Professor at UC Berkeley.
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Pieter Serneels

Pieter Serneels is a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and a Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia, where he leads the Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics Research Group and serves as an Executive Member of the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental...
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Stefano Fiorin

Stefano Fiorin is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University.
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Supreet Kaur

Supreet Kaur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is in development economics and behavioral economics, with a focus on labor markets.
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Ursula Mattioli Mello

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Claudia Martínez Alvear

Claudia Martínez is on leave as a J-PAL affiliate. She is currently serving as the economics lead specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank.
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Jade Sillère

Jade Sillère is a Research Assistant at J-PAL Europe, where she supports various research projects led by Assistant Professors Jacob Moscona and Nina Rousille, focusing on climate and labor markets.
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Akhilan J R

Akhilan is a Research Associate in J-PAL South Asia working on the “Identifying and Nurturing Math Talent” project, which aims to assess the impact of providing self paced, challenging math coursework to students from resource-constrained government schools of Tamil Nadu.

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