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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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vol. 60 no. 2 538-577
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https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0620-10971R1
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
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  • Received June 1, 2020
  • Accepted June 1, 2022
  • Published online March 18, 2025.

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  1. Juan Esteban Saavedra
  1. 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 (jesaavedra{at}hks.harvard.edu).
  1. Dario Maldonado
  1. Dario Maldonado is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota (dmaldonadoc{at}uniandes.edu.co).
  1. Lucrecia Santibañez
  1. Lucrecia Santibañez is a Professor of Education at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies (lsantibanez{at}g.ucla.edu).
  1. Luis Omar Herrera-Prada
  1. 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 (lherreraprada{at}imf.org).
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