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Browse news articles about J-PAL and our affiliated professors, and read our press releases and monthly global and research newsletters. For media inquiries, please email us.

What India can learn from Pakistan’s scheme to incentivise its civil servants with better postings

A study by J-PAL affiliates on Pakistan’s civil servants showed that incentivizing officers with a posting of their own choice remarkably improved their performance.

March 2018 Newsletter

In the March 2018 newsletter, J-PAL announces the new Gender sector, shares videos from classrooms implementing an evidence-backed pedagogical approach in Zambia, and more.

Labour-monitoring technologies raise efficiency—and hard questions

The Economist discusses research by J-PAL affiliates Supreet Kaur, Michael Kremer, and Sendhil Mullainathan conducted in Mysore, India. In the randomized evaluation, data-entry workers whose payment was linked to their performance achieved big gains in output.