Timeline of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

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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 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]
2005 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.[3]
2007 May Branch J-PAL Europe (Paris, France), is established with the Paris School of Economics.[4]
2007 Branch J-PAL South Asia (Chennai, India) is established with the Institute for Financial Management and Research.[5]
2008 J-PAL receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Development Cooperation.[6]
2009 January Esther Duflo becomes the youngest woman ever to give lectures at the exalted Collège de France, in Paris, drawing international media attention.[7]
2009 Branch J-PAL Latin America and Caribbean (Santiago, Chile) is established with the Pontifícia Universidad Católica.[8]
2009 Award Abhijit Banerjee receives inaugural Infosys Prize in Social Sciences and Economics.[9]
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".[10].
2010 Award Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan are named among Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers.[11]
2010 Award Esther Duflo receives John Bates Clark Medal.[12]
2010 October Award Erica Field receives Elaine Bennett Research Prize.[13]
2011 January Branch J-PAL Africa (Cape Town, South Africa) is established with the University of Cape Town.[14]
2011 Award Poor Economics chosen as Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.[15]
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.[16]
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.[17]
2014 J-PAL, Abhijit Banerjee, and Esther Duflo awarded The Social Science Research Council's Albert O. Hirschman Prize[18]
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.[19]
2017 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.[20]
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.[21]

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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. ↑ "MIT alumnus backs Poverty Action Lab with 3 major endowments". news.mit.edu. Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  4. ↑ "J-PAL Europe - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab". parisschoolofeconomics.eu. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  5. ↑ "Contact J-PAL South Asia". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  6. ↑ "J-PAL captures major new international award". Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  7. ↑ "Poverty's Researcher". technologyreview.com. Retrieved 13 July 2018. 
  8. ↑ "Executive Director, Chile". unjobs.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  9. ↑ "Abhijit Banerjee". ideasforindia.in. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  10. ↑ "The Pragmatic Rebels". 2 July 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2018 – via www.bloomberg.com. 
  11. ↑ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  12. ↑ "Esther Duflo receives the John Bates Clark Medal". shass.mit.edu. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  13. ↑ "Harvard Economics Professor Wins Research Prize". thecrimson.com. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  14. ↑ "J-PAL Africa Launch Conference". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  15. ↑ "FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 May 2018. 
  16. ↑ "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. 
  17. ↑ "About J-PAL North America". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  18. ↑ "Statement of Commendation". The Social Science Research Council Albert O. Hirschmann Prize. Retrieved 15 January 2015. 
  19. ↑ "J-PAL LAC celebrates new partnership with Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 14 July 2018. 
  20. ↑ "Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018. 
  21. ↑ "Adapting a new educational approach to francophone West Africa". povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved 14 July 2018. 
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