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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
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      • 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.
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    • 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.
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  • 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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Matthew Edmundson

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Andre Zollinger

Andre Zollinger is a Senior Policy Manager at J-PAL Global where he is responsible for the Energy, Environment, and Climate Change sector.
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Brynn Fieldhouse

Brynn Fieldhouse is a Senior Operations Associate at J-PAL Global where she provides operational support to the Research, Education, and Training (RET) vertical. For the Education team, she works on the MITx MicroMasters and the master’s program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP).
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Blog

AI for social good: Helping students learn

AI has the potential to improve student learning and make evidence-informed education programs easier to deliver at scale—but there's a risk it could become another “magic bullet” that fails to improve learning, leaving governments to spend scarce resources on ed tech that sits unused in schools.
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Audrey Lorvo

Audrey Lorvo is an AI Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where she supports the Partnership for AI Evidence (PAIE). PAIE evaluates and scales transformative applications of AI in development programs, with the goal of maximizing the social benefits of AI and supporting poverty alleviation policies...
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McKenzie Leier

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Evaluating the Impact on Anemia of Making Double Fortified Salt Available in Bihar, India

In Bihar, India, researchers examined how double fortified salt could be most effectively priced, marketed, and distributed in order to have the greatest impact on a range of health, education, and economic outcomes.
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Matthew Kraft

Matthew Kraft is an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Brown University, where he founded and now serves as Faculty Director of SustainableED.
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Jacob Wallace

Jacob Wallace is an Associate Professor of Public Health at Yale University’s School of Public Health.
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Nathan Fiala

Nathan Fiala is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut.
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Alex Bartik

Alex Bartik is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Felipe Barrera-Osorio

Felipe Barrera-Osorio is a Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics at Vanderbilt University.
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Farah Said

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Ali Cheema

Ali Cheema is the Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and an Associate Professor of Economics.
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Eva Vivalt

Eva Vivalt is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto, where she is also affiliated with the Forward Society Lab and Schwartz Reisman Institute.

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