Isaac Mbiti is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Virginia and Co-Scientific Director of J-PAL Africa. His research interests are in economic development, labor economics, and demography.

Jeremy Magruder is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, at University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include unemployment in South Africa, job networks in India, and HIV/AIDS in Malawi. He received a PhD in Economics from Yale University and a BA in...

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

Paul Niehaus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at UC San Diego. He is Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair in Economics at UC San Diego and an affiliate of BREAD, CEGA, J-PAL, and the NBER. His research examines the design, implementation, and impact of anti-poverty programs...

Heather McCurdy joined J-PAL in 2011 to provide human subjects administration and support for Esther Duflo and the Global office. Heather spent five years in economic consulting support in Boston but previously spent two years in Mali with the Peace Corps.

Lauren is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Africa where she works with affiliates, policymakers and practitioners to further the J-PAL agenda of using evidence to inform policy.

Benjamin Roth is the Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on understanding and relaxing the constraints to small-scale entrepreneurship in the developing world and how investors should behave when they have...