The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that works to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by rigorous scientific evidence. J-PAL funds, provides technical support for, and disseminates the results of randomized controlled trials evaluating social interventions in health, education, agriculture, and other fields; as of 2020 its network included 500 researchers and 400 staff, and its programs had reached more than 400 million people through offices in seven countries.
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Founding Year HeadquartersCambridge, Massachusetts, United States 1 Geography
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1. Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (Wikipedia)
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J-PAL was founded in 2003 as the "Poverty Action Lab" by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan, all of the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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is headquartered near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology aimed to reducing poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by rigorous, scientific evidence.
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The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that works to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by rigorous scientific evidence.
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