Invited researcher, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

Description

Like J-PAL affiliated professors, invited researchers are also professors based at academic institutions where freedom to publish results is protected. Invited researchers typically have less experience than affiliated professors in carrying out randomized evaluations. By joining J-PAL as an invited researcher, they become eligible for a three-year term to apply for funding from a specific J-PAL initiative(s) or to work with a specific J-PAL regional office to implement their research project, opening doors to gaining this experience—often in partnership with a J-PAL affiliated professor.

Invited researchers to a J-PAL initiative are eligible to apply for funding from that initiative. Invited researchers to a J-PAL regional office are eligible to contract with that regional office to carry out field research.

Like J-PAL affiliates, invited researchers should be currently affiliated with a university or its equivalent, where academic freedom to publish results is protected, either as a professor or as a principal investigator. Researchers working at funding and implementing organizations (e.g. the World Bank, ADB or IDB) are not eligible to become invited researchers because of potential conflicts.

Due to limits on research funding and staff capacity, we can only add a limited number of researchers to each initiative or office every year. Eligible invited researchers are identified through an extensive annual centralized search process, nominated quarterly by initiative co-chairs or regional scientific directors, or through an annual self-nomination process (see below). Final selections are made by a committee of J-PAL affiliates.

The invitation is three-year, renewable.

I am currently an Invited Researcher to the following initiatives:
- Social Protection Initiative (SPI);
- Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI);
- Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative (DAISI);
- Digital Identification and Finance Initiative (DigiFI);
- Innovation In Government Initiative (IGI);
- Jobs and Opportunity Initiative Brazil (JOI BR);
- Jobs and Opportunity Initiative Global (JOI GL);
- Learning for All Initiative (LAI); Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI)
- J-PAL Africa
- J-PAL South East Asia

Period	1 Jan 2022 → 1 Jan 2025
Work for	Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), United States of America, Massachusetts
Degree of Recognition	International