Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector

Pablo Muñoz and Mounu Prem

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Abstract: 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.

Date: 2021-03-22
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DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/7zn2b_v1

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