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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
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Life on a dollar a day
In Poor Economics, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo open a window into the lives of the world’s poorest people, and suggest new remedies to combat poverty.
Tech support?
Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.
Deworming the world
How MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Kristin Forbes is helping to improve school participation in developing countries for just pennies per child
Esther Duflo wins Clark medal
MIT’s influential poverty researcher heralded as best economist under age 40.
Democracy put to the test
MIT field experiment asks: What happens when people gain the ability to govern themselves?
Poverty's researcher
MacArthur Foundation "genius" Esther Duflo, PhD '99, field-tests aid programs to find out which ones work-and why.
Initiative targets poor farmers in Africa
By understanding why Africa has not yet adopted technologies and practices that can dramatically boost productivity, researchers hope to improve farmers’ lives.
Data points of light
MIT’s undergraduates fight poverty one statistic at a time, thanks to coordination between the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Lab-grade economics
Can economists conduct studies with solid scientific foundations? Professor Joshua Angrist explains how to carry out 'natural experiments' with numbers.