The Direct Approach to Ending Extreme Poverty: Global Lessons from Cash Transfer Programs

Dr. Paul Niehaus summarizes key findings and shares his internationally informed perspective, covering challenges to designing and launching randomized controlled studies, interpreting evidence from diverse contexts, and highlighting features that translate across contexts, including the U.S.

Niehaus is an economist and entrepreneur working to accelerate the end of extreme poverty. He is Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair in Economics at UC San Diego and an affiliate of BREAD, the Center for Effective Global Action, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research examines the design, implementation, and impact of anti-poverty programs at large scales.