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Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector

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  • Muñoz, Pablo
  • Prem, Mounu

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Governments face many constraints in attracting talented managers to the public sector, where high-powered incentives are often absent. In this paper, we study how a civil service reform in Chile changed the effectiveness of a vital group of public sector managers: school principals. First, we estimate principal effectiveness using an extension of the canonical teacher value-added model. Then, we evaluate the effect of the reform on principal effectiveness using a difference-in-differences approach. We find that public schools appoint more effective managers and improve their students’ outcomes after increasing the competitiveness and transparency of their selection process.

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  • Muñoz, Pablo & Prem, Mounu, 2021. "Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector," SocArXiv 7zn2b_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:7zn2b_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/7zn2b_v1
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