LEAP - Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies
Direttore Scientifico del Laboratory for Effective AntiPoverty Policies (LEAP). Ha conseguito il PhD in Economics presso l’università di Harvard (1999). È stata Presidente del Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) nel 2016-2019 e Presidente dell’European Economic Association per l’anno 2018. Attualmente è Program Director di Development Economics per il Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Nel 2020 ha ricevuto il Birgit Grodal Award dalla European Economic Association. Collabora regolarmente con la Banca Mondiale e altre organizzazioni internazionali per valutare l’efficacia delle politiche di sviluppo.
Executive director Lucia Corno
She is Assistant Professor at Catholic University, Milan. She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi. Her research is in development economics with a focus on the role of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, social norms and ethnic diversity. Lucia was the PI of an innovative data collection among homeless people and collaborated with the World Bank on randomized control trials in Lesotho.
Team members
A dedicated team of professors specialized in development economics and in anti-poverty programs both in developing and in industrialized countries.
Joint Purpose
The LEAP initiative was founded in 2016 and made possible by the generous support of the Romeo and Enrica Invernizzi Foundation. LEAP aims at understanding and fighting poverty through rigorous evaluation methods. We use scientific research and original data collection to establish if a policy program works, to quantify the costs and benefits of a program, to experiment with different implementation options to improve program design and to contribute to capacity building in partner organizations and in recipient countries.
Core Activities
- Establishing potential innovative interventions after a careful research on existing data collection and a review of the literature to assess the state of the art
- Designing original questionnaires to be administered to the targeted individuals or institutions
- Designing interventions and policy experiments that are suitable for quantitative evaluation of their impact and cost‐effectiveness
- Using the most advanced empirical methods of impact evaluation (including randomized evaluations, field lab experiments, non-experimental and structural methods) to measure the effectiveness of public and private interventions
- Producing top quality research outputs related to the above
- Dissemination of the Lab’s findings and initiatives through several channels, including the website, workshops, media releases, reports for our partners and meetings with policy makers