Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Tech support?
December 9, 2010
Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.
Also labeled: Development, Economics, Political science, Poverty, Social sciences, Technology and society
Said and Done
September 19, 2010
Humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for September 2010
Also labeled: Awards, honors and fellowships, Books and authors, Development, Economics, Energy, Faculty, Humanities
Deworming the world
May 27, 2010
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
April 23, 2010
MIT’s influential poverty researcher heralded as best economist under age 40.
Democracy put to the test
February 8, 2010
MIT field experiment asks: What happens when people gain the ability to govern themselves?
Poverty's researcher
January 5, 2010
Initiative targets poor farmers in Africa
December 1, 2009
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
November 2, 2009
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
September 28, 2009
Can economists conduct studies with solid scientific foundations? Professor Joshua Angrist explains how to carry out 'natural experiments' with numbers.
Also labeled: Economics
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