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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.

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.