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Lina Marliani is the Executive Director of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Southeast Asia, which is hosted by the Institute for Economic and...

Emanuele Colonnelli is a Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Lisa Gennetian is Professor of Public Policy and the Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies at Duke University. 

J-PAL courses help implementers, policymakers, and researchers become better users and producers of evidence and equip learners with skills in impact...

Twenty-one new students are due to arrive on MIT’s campus in January 2020. They are the first cohort of the new Master’s in Data, Economics, and...

COVID-19 has disrupted and altered labor markets across the globe. Through the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative, we are supporting urgent research that helps us...

J-PAL Africa, based at the University of Cape Town, leads J-PAL’s work in sub-Saharan Africa. J-PAL Africa conducts randomized evaluations, builds...

Ahmed Elsayed is the Executive Director of J-PAL MENA at the American University in Cairo and an Associate Professor at the School of Business at the same...

J-PAL North America, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, catalyzes randomized evaluations, builds partnerships for evidence-informed...

The J-PAL Africa training team organises in-person trainings, online courses and customised workshops for researchers, policymakers and program implementers on...

Claudia Macías is Deputy Executive Director at J-PAL Latin America & Caribbean (LAC). She joined J-PAL LAC as Policy Manager in July of 2013.

Oeindrila Dube is the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. She studies poverty...

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...

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is the Co-Recipient of the 2019 Nobel...

J-PAL Africa, based at the University of Cape Town, leads J-PAL’s work in sub-Saharan Africa. J-PAL Africa conducts randomized evaluations, builds...

Abhijeet Singh is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research focuses on topics relating to the economics of...

The Water, Air, and Energy (WAE) Lab is a collaboration between J-PAL Africa and the City of Cape Town to co-generate research and inform the scaling of...

The UM6P-J-PAL Applied Lab for Agriculture (UJALA) aims to generate rigorous, policy-relevant evidence to answer critical questions around small-scale...

Nicholas Bloom is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. He is also the Co-Director of the...

The Alliance for Scaling Policy Impact through Research and Evidence (ASPIRE) is a coalition of governments, philanthropic organizations, civil society groups,...

Lisa Turley Smith is a Research Associate for Amy Finkelstein at J-PAL North America, where she supports research on the end-stage renal disease treatment...

In addition to questions about AI’s big-picture impacts, pressing questions remain about the effects specific use cases will have on outcomes in the real...

Jing Cai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. She serves as Co-Chair of...

Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago, in the Harris School of Public Policy, as well as a...

J-PAL North America’s Education team works to catalyze randomized evaluations and disseminate evidence on innovative tactics to improve student learning and...

J-PAL North America's November newsletter features a new blog post on interpreting results from the Baby's First Years study, a feature on our 2025...

J-PAL’s Gender and Economic Agency (GEA) Initiative funds randomized evaluations of strategies to enhance women’s economic agency.  

The J-PAL Africa research team conducts randomized evaluations on social programs and policies in South Africa. We have hubs in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and...

In the October edition of our newsletter, we highlight solutions to current policy challenges around the world: A new AI evidence alliance, a market-based...

Over the past two decades, J-PAL and members of our research network worked closely with USAID on many projects to design, pilot, and evaluate innovative...

Reorienting instruction has improved learning opportunities for over 60 million students in India and Africa.

J-PAL North America’s US Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) supports randomized evaluations of strategies that aim to make health care delivery in the...

Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute...

Cillian Nolan is the Executive Director of the Europe office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He oversees and provides strategic direction...

Abhijit Banerjee has conducted randomized evaluations of remedial and computer assisted education in India and has assessed reforms of informal schools in...

Rachel Glennerster is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Division of Social Science at the University of Chicago and currently serves as the President...

Attaullah Abbasi is a Senior AI Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where he supports efforts to maximize the social benefits of artificial intelligence and...

J-PAL Europe, based at the Paris School of Economics, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking across Europe by fostering the development of new...

Eliza leads J-PAL's external communications, including strategic planning and development of editorial content, message guidance, innovative web...

The J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative supports US state and local leaders in building a culture of evidence generation and use.