The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a research network specializing in randomized evaluations of social programs to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. These randomized evaluations are a type of impact evaluation that uses random assignment to allocate resources, run programs, or apply policies as part of the study design. Like all impact evaluations, the main purpose of randomized evaluations is to determine whether a program has an impact, and more specifically, to quantify how large that impact is.
At this IPS Roundtable, Professor Esther Duflo, the founder and director of J-PAL share will share with us the methodology, their success stories and discuss if there are lessons than can be applied in Singapore. More about J-PAL can be found here.
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