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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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Pushyami Chilakapati

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Junia Barbosa

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Sarah Coughlin

Sarah Coughlin is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Global. In this role, she supports the Agriculture Sector's Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative (DAISI), as well as writes policy publications, conducts policy outreach for evidence dissemination, and helps cultivate new research...
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Lore Vandewalle

Lore Vandewalle is a Professor of Economics at KU Leuven and a Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Lore Vandewalle is an applied micro-economist, specialized in development and political economics. Her research mainly focuses on financial inclusion...
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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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David Yang

David Yang is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He studies political economy, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, and cultural economics. In particular, David studies the forces of stability and forces of changes in authoritarian regimes, drawing lessons from...
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Ernesto Dal Bó

Ernesto Dal Bó is the Phillips Girgich Professor of Business and Public Policy and Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a political economist interested in areas pertaining to political and bureaucratic selection, political...
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Clement de Chaisemartin

Clément de Chaisemartin is an Professor of Economics at Sciences Po. His fields of research are econometrics, economics of education, and health economics.
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Joseph Doyle

Joseph Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Chair of J-PAL's Health sector.
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David Molitor

David Molitor is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research explores how location and the environment shape health and healthcare delivery. His recent work includes a large-scale field experiment of workplace wellness conducted at the University of...
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Abhijeet Singh

Abhijeet Singh is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research focuses on topics relating to the economics of education, child nutrition, and public service delivery in low- and middle-income countries.
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Clement Imbert

Clément Imbert is a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris (on leave from the University of Warwick). He received a PhD from the Paris School of Economics in 2012 and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College until 2015.
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Jesse Rothstein

Jesse Rothstein is the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Faculty Director of the California Policy Lab at Berkeley. His research interests include the economics of education, labor markets, and tax and transfer policy. He is an...
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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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Wyatt Brooks

Wyatt Brooks is an Associate Professor, at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He studies the effects of trade and market access within countries and across countries, as well as barriers to firm growth.

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