Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Munoz, Pablo; Prem, Mounu
• 署名单位: Universidad de Chile; Getulio Vargas Foundation; National University of Rosario
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20220732
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 223-253
• 关键词: test-scores; school principals; teacher turnover; cross-section; QUALITY; performance; matter; patronage; tracking; returns

摘要

Governments face many constraints in attracting talented managers to the public sector, which often lacks high-powered incentives. 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 by 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 appointed more effective managers and improved their students' outcomes after increasing the competitiveness and transparency of their selection process.