Not the typical Hacker News reader, but might be interesting for some. I used to work (I am a graduate student now) at the Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL, http://www

Not the typical Hacker News reader, but might be interesting for some. I used to work (I am a graduate student now) at the Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL, http://www.povertyactionlab.org http://www.povertyactionlab.org) in Latin America. It is a research center that fights poverty by building evidence on which public policies and social programs work (and which do not work). In my last role as "Policy Manager" it is difficult to define a typical day, but it was mostly managing people, projects, reading papers to pick up messages for policymakers, writing policy memos, some traveling, some consulting for governments, making presentations, and managing upwards. If you are interested take a look at a new Micromasters they launched along with MIT on Data, Economics and Development: https://micromasters.mit.edu/dedp/?utm_source=odl&utm_campaign=mitx&utm_medium=social&utm_content=mm-dedp-launch-tw-1 https://micromasters.mit.edu/dedp/?utm_source=odl&utm_campai....