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View ORCID ProfileJuan Esteban Saavedra, View ORCID ProfileDario Maldonado, View ORCID ProfileLucrecia Santibañez and View ORCID ProfileLuis Omar Herrera-Prada
Journal of Human Resources, March 2025, 60 (2) 538-577; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0620-10971R1
Juan Esteban Saavedra
Juan Esteban Saavedra is a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research .
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Dario Maldonado is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota .
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Lucrecia Santibañez is a Professor of Education at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies .
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Luis Omar Herrera Prada is a Senior Research Analyst at the International Monetary Fund and a member of the Ibero-Amerika Institut at the University of Göttingen .
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    • I. Introduction
    • II. Public Teacher Hiring in Colombia
    • III. Data and Methods
    • IV. Validation of the Regression Discontinuity Research Design
    • V. Results: Public Teacher Applicants at the Margin
    • VI. Earnings Premium for Inframarginal High-Scoring Applicants
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