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Molly Gilmore
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Rama Murthy Sripada
Rama Murthy Sripada is a Senior Research Manager at J-PAL South Asia, where he works on managing the data and analysis needs of a portfolio of two to three active and ongoing projects under the RISE project.
Blog
Affiliate Spotlight: Elise Huillery
Elise Huillery is a Professor of Economics at Paris Dauphine University. Her research focuses on policies addressing lack of education and the psychological barriers to individual progress out of poverty. From the humanitarian projects of her youth to the policy research she leads today, Elise...
Blog
Announcing the J-PAL Jobs and Opportunity Initiative
COVID-19 has disrupted and altered labor markets across the globe. Through the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative, we are supporting urgent research that helps us understand how vulnerable workers around the world are being impacted by COVID-19, and how to design effective policy responses to protect...
Initiative
King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI)
The King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI) at J-PAL generates evidence and catalyzes the scale-up of high-impact policy solutions at the nexus of climate change and poverty alleviation in partnership with governments, NGOs, donors, and companies worldwide. K-CAI strives to build a movement of...
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Initiative projects and documents
King Climate Action Initiative Request for Proposals
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Amri Ilmma
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Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
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Jessica Meckler
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Todd Hall
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Maria Luisa Vásquez Rossi
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Rachel Glennerster
Rachel Glennerster is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Division of Social Science at the University of Chicago and currently serves as the President of the Center for Global Development.
Evaluation
Improving Student Learning through Pay-for-Performance Teacher Contracts in Rwanda
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of pay for performance contracts on teachers’ qualities, effort, and student learning in Rwanda. Pay for performance improved teacher effort, particularly their presence in classroom and their pedagogical effectiveness, and raised student learning outcomes.