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| 2014 || April || || "J-PAL’s 101x: Evaluating Social Programs, launched for the first time in April this year as a massive open online course (MOOC), received an overwhelming response with 12,000 people enrolling and 1,000 receiving certificates of completion. Offered as an MITx MOOC on the edX platform, a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT, the course has been modeled after J-PAL’s 5-day Executive Education course and is now offered for a second time (registration still open)."<ref>{{cite web |title=J-PAL offers open online training courses |url=http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/102371/J-PAL-offers-open-online-training-courses |website=saudigazette.com.sa |accessdate=14 July 2018}}</ref>
 
| 2014 || April || || "J-PAL’s 101x: Evaluating Social Programs, launched for the first time in April this year as a massive open online course (MOOC), received an overwhelming response with 12,000 people enrolling and 1,000 receiving certificates of completion. Offered as an MITx MOOC on the edX platform, a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT, the course has been modeled after J-PAL’s 5-day Executive Education course and is now offered for a second time (registration still open)."<ref>{{cite web |title=J-PAL offers open online training courses |url=http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/102371/J-PAL-offers-open-online-training-courses |website=saudigazette.com.sa |accessdate=14 July 2018}}</ref>

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This is a timeline of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, a global network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty.[1]

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2003 The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

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2003 June The Poverty Action Lab is founded by Professors Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan[2] as a research center at the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
2004 Staff Rachel Glennerster joins Poverty Action Lab as executive director.[3]
2005 Poverty Action Lab formally partners with Community Jameel, an organization established in 2003 to continue the Jameel family's tradition of supporting social and economic sustainability. The Lab is renamed Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in honor of Abdul Latif Jameel when his son, MIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, supports it with three major endowments.[4][3]
2006 J-PAL receives core support from several organizations: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Nike Foundation, Russ Siegelman, and the Doug B. Marshall Jr. Foundation.[3]
2007 Branch J-PAL South Asia is established with at Institute for Financial Management and Research in Chennai, India. The new branch is supported by the Mulago Foundation.[3][5]
2007 Partnership J-PAL partners with non-profit Young Global Leaders, with the purpose of launching a scale-up initiative, Deworm the World, at the World Economic Forum in Davos.[3]
2008 Branch J-PAL Europe is launched at the Paris School of Economics. The branch claims an effort to promote the use of randomized evaluations in rich countries.[3][6]
2008 Award J-PAL receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Development Cooperation.[7]
2009 January Esther Duflo becomes the youngest woman ever to give lectures at the exalted Collège de France, in Paris, drawing international media attention.[8]
2009 Branch J-PAL Latin America and Caribbean (Santiago, Chile) is established with the Pontifícia Universidad Católica.[9]
2009 Award Abhijit Banerjee receives inaugural Infosys Prize in Social Sciences and Economics.[10]
2010 A Business Week story, "The Pragmatic Rebels," terms J-PAL's approach that of "a new breed of skeptical empiricists committed to assiduous testing and tangible results".[11].
2010 Award Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan are named among Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers.[12]
2010 Conference J-PAL hosts a conference with the Government of Bihar, to share evidence on school-based deworming and other promising programs. Following these discussions, the Government of Bihar, with support from Deworm the World, would launch a state-wide deworming campaign in 2011, reaching 17 million children.[13]
2010 Award Esther Duflo receives John Bates Clark Medal.[14]
2010 October Award Erica Field receives Elaine Bennett Research Prize.[15]
2010 Staff J-PAL creates a Board of Directors to provide overall strategic guidance and help expand activities in research, capacity building, and policy outreach.[3]
2011 January Branch J-PAL Africa (Cape Town, South Africa) is established at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.[16][3]
2011 The Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) is established at J-PAL South Asia, with support from the World Bank, with the purpose to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation capacity of governments and civil societies.[3]
2011 Program J-PAL assembles the Compass Commission, a group of international and local academics, with the purpose of identifying major social policy challenges in Chile and proposing innovative programs and their evaluations to the Government.[3][17]
2011 Award Poor Economics chosen as Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.[18]
2011 Partnership J-PAL begins long-term partnership with India’s National Academy of Administration, with aims at conducting evidence workshops and trainings on impact evaluations for senior civil servants of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).[3]
2011 Management J-PAL organizes its research in seven sectors: Agriculture, Education, Environment and Energy, Finance and Microfinance, Health, Labor Markets, and Political Economy and Governance.[3]
2011 Program J-PAL's The Governance Initiative (GI) and the Urban Services Initiative (USI) are launched with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the United Kingdom Department for International Development; and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation respectively. Governance Initiative funds randomized evaluations of interventions designed to improve participation in the political and policy process, reduce corruption and leakages, and improve state capacity.[19][3] Urban Services Initiative (USI) seeks to identify and rigorously evaluate innovative methods designed to improve the welfare of the urban poor in Africa and Asia.[20]
2012 The Quipu Commission is assembled by J-PAL LAC and its partners Enterprise Solutions to Poverty (SEP), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), and the Ministry of Social Development and Inclusion of Peru (MIDIS), to generate evidence that the Peruvian government can use to design and implement better social policies.[3] The Quipu Commission seeks to generate innovative proposals and empirical evidence that the Peruvian government can use to answer key policy questions and design and implement better public policies.[21]
2012 Staff Ben Olken joins J-PAL as its fouth director.[3]
2013 February Recognition Time Magazine names MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Professor Esther Duflo, director of MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab among the 100 most influential people in the world 2011.[22]
2013 Partnership The Government of Rwanda partners with J-PAL, in order to increase the use of rigorous research in policy making.[23]
2013 Branch J-PAL North America (Cambridge, Massachusetts) is established with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It leverages scholarship from more than 130 affiliated professors from over 40 universities, and a full-time staff of about 30 researchers, policy experts, and administrative professionals, to generate and disseminate rigorous evidence about which anti-poverty social policies work and why.[24]
2013 J-PAL Southeast Asia is established at the Institute for Economic and Social Research at the University of Indonesia with support from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Australian Government. The event is inaugurated by the President of Indonesia Basuki Tjahaja Purnama.[3]
2013 J-PAL North America opens at the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.[3]
2014 April "J-PAL’s 101x: Evaluating Social Programs, launched for the first time in April this year as a massive open online course (MOOC), received an overwhelming response with 12,000 people enrolling and 1,000 receiving certificates of completion. Offered as an MITx MOOC on the edX platform, a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT, the course has been modeled after J-PAL’s 5-day Executive Education course and is now offered for a second time (registration still open)."[25]
2014 J-PAL, Abhijit Banerjee, and Esther Duflo awarded The Social Science Research Council's Albert O. Hirschman Prize[26]
2016 February Partnership J-PAL LAC and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) officially launch their new collaboration, which according to Alejandro Hernández, the Provost of ITAM, will “help boost great research projects for Mexico and the region.” Through this partnership, ITAM is expected to host J-PAL LAC staff, support evaluations by J-PAL affiliated researchers in Mexico, and collaborate with J-PAL LAC on policy outreach.[27]
2017 May The Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) begins working towards its mission of sparking a global renaissance in education through the collaboration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Community Jameel, a social enterprise organization of which the chairman is Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel ‘78, a MIT alumnus and MIT Corporation life member, with strong ties to the MIT community.[28]
2017 Funding J-PAL launches three research funds to facilitate new randomized evaluations: the Cash Transfers for Child Health Initiative, based at J-PAL South Asia; the Skills for Youth Program, based at J-PAL Latin America & the Caribbean; and the Crime and Violence Initiative.[3]
2017 April The State Government of Punjab, India and J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research sign a Memorandum of Understanding to support the government in taking an evidence-informed approach to its poverty alleviation efforts.[29]
2017 April J-PAL announces it will be increasing its work and presence in the Middle East and North Africa. This includes supporting the development of policy-driven research, the results of which could inform policymaking in the Middle East and other regions facing similar challenges around the world.[30]
2018 March J-PAL Europe technical advisor starts working at the ministry’s headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire , to support development and implementation of the program Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), an educational approach to help primary school students who have fallen behind to catch up by targeting instruction to their current learning level.[31]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)". devex.com. Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  2. ↑ "Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)". poverty-action.org. Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 "Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  4. ↑ "MIT alumnus backs Poverty Action Lab with 3 major endowments". news.mit.edu. Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  5. ↑ "Contact J-PAL South Asia". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  6. ↑ "J-PAL Europe - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab". parisschoolofeconomics.eu. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  7. ↑ "J-PAL captures major new international award". Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  8. ↑ "Poverty's Researcher". technologyreview.com. Retrieved 13 July 2018. 
  9. ↑ "Executive Director, Chile". unjobs.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  10. ↑ "Abhijit Banerjee". ideasforindia.in. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  11. ↑ "The Pragmatic Rebels". 2 July 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2018 – via www.bloomberg.com. 
  12. ↑ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  13. ↑ "School-based deworming". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 1 August 2018. 
  14. ↑ "Esther Duflo receives the John Bates Clark Medal". shass.mit.edu. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  15. ↑ "Harvard Economics Professor Wins Research Prize". thecrimson.com. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  16. ↑ "J-PAL Africa Launch Conference". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  17. ↑ "J-PAL's Compass Commission". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 1 August 2018. 
  18. ↑ "FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  19. ↑ "Governance Initiative". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 1 August 2018. 
  20. ↑ "Urban Services Initiative". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 1 August 2018. 
  21. ↑ "Quipu Commission". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 1 August 2018. 
  22. ↑ "Time Magazine names MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Professor Esther Duflo, director of MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab among the 100 most influential people in the world 2011". alj.com. Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  23. ↑ "Government of Rwanda partners Jameel Poverty Action Lab to bridge research and policy". minecofin.gov.rw. Retrieved 15 July 2018. 
  24. ↑ "About J-PAL North America". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  25. ↑ "J-PAL offers open online training courses". saudigazette.com.sa. Retrieved 14 July 2018. 
  26. ↑ "Statement of Commendation". The Social Science Research Council Albert O. Hirschmann Prize. Retrieved 15 January 2015. 
  27. ↑ "J-PAL LAC celebrates new partnership with Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 14 July 2018. 
  28. ↑ "Community Jameel: The Foundation of J-WEL". jwel.mit.edu. Retrieved 15 July 2018. 
  29. ↑ "J-PAL South Asia launches partnership with Government of Punjab, India". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 14 July 2018. 
  30. ↑ "Reducing Poverty and Promoting Social Development: How Evidence Can Inform Better Policy in MENA". schools.aucegypt.edu. Retrieved 14 July 2018. 
  31. ↑ "Adapting a new educational approach to francophone West Africa". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 14 July 2018. 
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