Students, faculty, and staff from MIT attended the COP28 U.N. climate change conference in Dubai. At a forum hosted by the MIT Center for International Studies in January, MIT community members shared their experiences and insights from the conference.
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work using Randomized Controlled Trials to evaluate social policies, spoke to The Indian Express about the most important policy challenges facing India. The duo, who co-founded The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in 2003, were speaking on the occasion of J-PAL's 20th anniversary.
J-PAL North America and Results for America announced 18 new collaborations with state and local governments through their Leveraging Evidence and Evaluation for Equitable Recovery (LEVER) programming.
MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is launching the Clean Air and Water Labs, with support from Community Jameel, to generate evidence-based solutions aimed at increasing access to clean air and water.
J-PAL North America is developing a strategic vision, to be informed by a new racial equity advisory committee to advance inclusion, prioritize racial equity in research, and promote equitable and inclusive research practices in its network.