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The Poverty Action Lab was founded in 2003 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by professors Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan, with the goal of transforming how the world approaches the challenges of global poverty.
In 2005 the lab was named in honor of Abdul Latif Jameel, the father of MIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel and founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel company.
Duflo and Banerjee were married in 2015.
J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, above, with longtime J-PAL affiliate Michael Kremer, are awarded the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| International Initiative for Impact Evaluation | 2008 | $8.0M | 121 | - |
| IMPAQ International | 2001 | $52.0M | 175 | - |
| Learning Policy Institute | 2015 | $10.8M | 68 | - |
| DEval - German Institute for Development Evaluation | 2012 | $15.0M | 67 | - |
| Innovations for Poverty Action | 2002 | $50.0M | 500 | - |
| Pew Research Center | 2004 | $44.4M | 2 | - |
| Institute for Policy Studies | 1963 | $5.3M | 32 | - |
| American Enterprise Institute | 1938 | $75.1M | 734 | - |
| International Fertilizer Development Center | 1974 | $15.0M | 663 | 4 |
| United Nations Population Fund | 1969 | $330.0M | 5,599 | - |
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