Dario Maldonado
Cr 1 No 19-27
Bloque AU, piso 2 Ofc: 220
Bogota, Colombia
E-Mail: dmaldonadoc@uniandes.edu.co
Institutional Affiliation: Universidad de los Andes
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NBER Working Papers and Publications
November 2017 | Premium or Penalty? Labor Market Returns to Novice Public Sector Teachers
with Juan Saavedra, Lucrecia Santibanez, Luis Omar Herrera Prada: w24012
It is unclear whether public sector teachers are under or overpaid relative to other occupations due to lack of knowledge about teachers’ outside labor market options and other unobserved attributes related to compensation. We estimate causal labor market returns to novice public teachers in Colombia. Our approach takes advantage of a national, standardized, teacher-screening exam, scores on which determine eligibility for public teaching jobs. We use four nationwide administrative data sources in a regression discontinuity approach to show that applicants who marginally pass the teacher screening test have greater annual earnings during the first three years of tenure than applicants below the passing cutoff. The total earnings effect is a combination of higher daily wages and greater lab... |
November 2007 | Voting over Type and Generosity of a Pension System When Some Individuals Are Myopic
with Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Pierre Pestieau
in Public Policy and Retirement, Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES), Sören Blomquist and Roger Gordon, organizers
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