Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT
Learning to Randomize

Practitioners from 30 countries attended J-PAL training courses on how to run randomized evaluations in Abuja (Nigeria), Cambridge (USA), and Chennai (India) during June and July 2007. The Abuja course was sponsored by Total and the Chennai course hosted by the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR). The courses were taught by J-PAL Directors and faculty. Participating organizations included the Azim Premji Foundation, Care, the Colombian National Planning Department, US Department of Labor, Google.org, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Oxfam, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, Save the Children, and the World Bank along with representatives of ministries of education from across sub-Saharan Africa.

For information about future opportunities to take this course, please refer to http://www.povertyactionlab.com/course/.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in the MIT Department of Economics is dedicated to fighting poverty by ensuring that policy decisions are based on scientific evidence. We run, promote the use of, and disseminate the results of randomized evaluations of poverty programs. If you are not currently receiving J-PAL publications and updates and wish to be added (or removed) from our electronic and postal mailing lists, please contact us at povertyactionlab@mit.edu or 617 324 0108.