J-PAL North America

@JPAL_NA

J-PAL North America, based at @MIT, seeks to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. j-p.al/NA_News

Cambridge, MA povertyactionlab.org/na Joined January 2016

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📢MIT News Release📢 “ARTEMIS takes rigorous methodologies, like randomized evaluations, and makes them approachable,” shares @GEDanielsJr on @JPAL_NA’s new program supporting early-career researchers to design & fund #RCTs in the US.

🔗Learn more: news.mit.edu/2026/j-pal-nor…

A man speaks at a podium while a woman stands smiling beside him during a presentation in a conference room. Audience members are seated in the foreground, and a slide on the screen behind them introduces the 2026 participants. The text on the image reads, "NEW PRESS RELEASE. J-PAL North America launches ARTEMIS to train early-career researchers.

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Regression to the mean is a statistical phenomenon where extreme outcomes tend to be followed by more moderate outcomes—closer to the mean. On the @JPAL blog, learn more about this phenomenon and how it affects impact evaluation: povertyactionlab.org/blog/2-27-24/r…

www.povertyactionlab.org Regression to the mean: What it is and why it matters for impact evaluations | The Abdul Latif... Regression to the mean is a statistical phenomenon where extreme outcomes tend to be followed by more moderate outcomes—closer to the mean. In the field of social policy, this could mean that...

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This @JPAL policy insight synthesizes findings from eleven #RCTs demonstrating that informational “nudges” increase health insurance enrollment. povertyactionlab.org/policy-insight…

www.povertyactionlab.org The effect of nudges on health insurance take-up in the United States | The Abdul Latif Jameel... Providing nudges to individuals eligible for health insurance benefits leads to small but notable increases in insurance take-up and plan switching. Low-cost, mass-outreach campaigns are particularly...

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How can schools develop & keep successful teachers? 👩‍🏫 The first step is to identify effective teachers with easily implemented and evidence-based measures like classroom observations and student surveys: povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/ide…

www.povertyactionlab.org The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Researchers evaluated how well different measures of teacher effectiveness predicted student performance in six school districts in the United States. Measures of teacher effectiveness based on...