Premium or Penalty? Labor Market Returns to Novice Public Sector Teachers

Juan Esteban Saavedra (corresponding author) is a Research Economist at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research, a Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research ().

Dario Maldonado is a Professor of Public Policy at the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota ().

Lucrecia Santibañez is an Associate Professor of Education at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies ().

Luis Omar Herrera Prada is a Research Analyst at the International Monetary Fund and a member of the Ibero-Amerika Institut at the University of Göttingen ().