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.
History
J-PAL was founded in 2003 by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan.[1] Rachel Glennerster was its Executive Director between 2004 and 2017. In 2019, Banerjee and Duflo, together with Michael Kremer, were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for their use of randomized controlled trials to alleviate global poverty.[2]
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a close partner of J-PAL.
Funding
In January 2019, GiveWell recommended a $1 million grant—via the Global Health and Development Fund—to Innovation in Government Initiative, a grantmaking entity that sits within J-PAL.[3][4]
As of July 2022, J-PAL has received $200,000 in grants from Open Philanthropy.[5]
Further reading
Banerjee, Abhijit & Esther Duflo (2011) Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, New York: PublicAffairs.
Banerjee, Abhijit & Esther Duflo (2019) Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems, New York: PublicAffairs.
Bloomberg Businessweek (2010) The pragmatic rebels, Bloomberg Businessweek, July 2.
Dhaliwal, Iqbal, Claire Walsh & Elie Hassenfeld (2016) A conversation with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, GiveWell, February 12.
Glennerster, Rachel et al. (2014) A conversation with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, GiveWell, December 22.
Sanchez, Sebastian et al. (2020) Timeline of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Timelines Wiki, April 10.
External links
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Official website.
Related links
Abhijit Banerjee | Esther Duflo | Innovations for Poverty Action | Innovation in Government Initiative | randomized controlled trials
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J-PAL (2020) About us, J-PAL.
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2019) The Prize in Economic Sciences 2019, The Nobel Prize, October 14.
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GiveWell (2019) Innovation in government initiative — general support, GiveWell, January.
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Global Health and Development Fund (2019) January 2019: J-PAL’s Innovation in Government Initiative, Effective Altruism Funds, January.
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Open Philanthropy (2021) Grants database: Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Open Philanthropy.
I don’t think we need a separate tag for this. Especially since there aren’t any posts about J-PAL.
This is a stub article that will later be expanded as we incorporate Pablo Stafforini’s EA wiki project into our tags. I’ve made many of the stub articles “Wiki only” so they won’t display on the “All Tags” page by default; I’ll transition this one as well.