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Les extendemos la invitación al seminario que organiza el Departamento de Economía, en el que se presentará el trabajo titulado "Sreening and Recruiting Talent At Teacher Colleges Using Pre-College Academic Achievement".

Expone: Sebastián Gallegos, Escuela de Negocios de la UAI

Abstract: This paper studies screening and recruiting policies that restrict or incentivize entry to teacher-colleges. Using historical records of college entrance exam scores since 1967 and linking them to administrative data on the population of teachers in Chile, we first document a robust positive and concave relationship between pre- college academic achievement and several short and long run measures of teacher productivity. We use an RD design to evaluate two recent policies that increased the share of high-scoring students studying to become teachers. We then show how data-driven algorithms and administrative data can enhance similar teacher screening and recruiting policies.

El formato será presencial y el seminario se desarrollará en la Sala P-304.

Saludos cordiales,

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