25 June 2026

Samuel Bentolila, jointly with Ana García-Hernández and Inés Torres-Rojas (J-PAL Europe), publishes an article in the “la Caixa” Foundation’s Social Observatory summarizing the experience of the Inclusion Policy Lab.

CEMFI Professors Samuel Bentolila and Monica Martinez-Bravo coordinated a team of researchers from several institutions. The coordination was carried out jointly with Ana Garcia-Hernandez, from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Jointly with the Secretaría General de Inclusión of the Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones of Spain, the team carried out the randomized evaluation of 23 social inclusion projects. You can find more information about the Inclusion Policy Lab here.

Members of the research team are preparing scientific papers on many of the projects, some of which will appear in a Special Issue of SERIEs-Journal of the Spanish Economic Association on “Randomized Impact Evaluation of Social Inclusion Policies in Spain.