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Christopher R. Udry is an American economist who currently serves as King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.Udry is the co-founder (with Dean Karlan) and current co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at the Kellogg School of Management.
In 2017, Karlan moved to Northwestern University alongside colleague Christopher Udry to co-direct the university's new Global Poverty Research Lab, based at the Kellogg School of Management. [ 6 ]
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is an American non-profit research and policy organization founded in 2002 by economist Dean Karlan. [1] Since its foundation, IPA has worked with over 400 leading academics to conduct over 900 evaluations in 52 countries. [2] The organization also manages the Poverty Probability Index.
Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
J-PAL was founded in 2003 as the "Poverty Action Lab" by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan, all of the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [4] Initial funding for the research center was approved by MIT economics department chair Bengt Holmström in an effort to convince Duflo and her ...
[16] [17] At UCLA, it provides a results-driven space for research, incubate, and implement innovative ideas to the alleviate poverty. [18] [19] The U.S. Global Development Lab [20] seeks to be a mechanism for taking ideas to change-making action. [21] It partnered with UC Berkeley to create the Global Development Fellows Program to support ...
When the Center was first founded, Payson S. Wild, the then-vice president of Northwestern, said, "Our Center for Urban Affairs can make a unique contribution if we have scholars committed to the application of scientific research in the realm of public policy." [3] In 1983, the Center was renamed the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy ...
The Institute for Research on Poverty is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison dedicated to studying poverty and economic inequality. It was established in March 1966, as a result of an agreement between UW–Madison and the Office of Economic Opportunity . [ 1 ]