J-PAL North America announces new partnerships with three state and local governments
J-PAL North America announced today that it will partner with three U.S. state and local governments to evaluate promising solutions related to education, housing, and economic security. The California Franchise Tax Board, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, and the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee were selected from among more than two dozen applicants in the latest round of the J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative. These governments will partner with J-PAL and its network of leading academic researchers to develop randomized evaluations, also known as randomized controlled trials or RCTs, that have the potential to yield rigorous evidence about which programs and policies are most effective. “We are honored to partner with these governments to both build on existing evidence and generate new insights about what works,” says Mary Ann Bates, executive director of J-PAL North America and initiative co-chair. “The evidence generated through this initiative has the potential to inform important policy...