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The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on Stratification 

Estrada, Ricardo (CAF, 2017-05-31)
I use detailed applications data to document a case in which, contrary to prevailing concerns, increasing school stratification by ability co-existed with stable stratification by family income: Mexico City public high ...
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Predicting Individual Wellbeing Through Test Scores: Evidence from a National Assessment in Mexico 

de Hoyos, Rafael; Estrada, Ricardo; Vargas, María José (CAF, 2018-05)
We construct two longitudinal datasets that record students’ test scores in a national standardized exam in Mexico and track students from the end of primary (Grade 6) to the end of lower (Grade 9) and upper (Grade 12) ...
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My (Running) Mate, the Mayor: Political Ties and Access to Public Jobs in Ecuador 

Brassiolo, Pablo; Estrada, Ricardo; Fajardo, Gustavo (CAF, 2020-01-17)
We show that local politicians’ probability of being employed by a municipality increases when they have a strong party connection to its mayor. Using a regression discontinuity design, we compare the employment outcomes ...
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Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage 

Berniell, Inés; Estrada, Ricardo (CAF, 2017-11-08)
In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children ...
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Rules vs. Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico 

Estrada, Ricardo (CAF, 2017-08-18)
In this paper, I use a unique empirical setting that allows me to compare the performance of teachers hired in a discretionary process led by the teachers’ union in Mexico with the performance of those hired on the basis ...
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Skills and selection into teaching: Evidence from Latin America 

Estrada, Ricardo; Lombardi, María (CAF, 2020-08-12)
This paper documents a novel stylized fact: many teachers in Latin America have very low levels of cognitive skills. This skills deficit is the result of both low levels of competencies among the population and a gap between ...
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Rule–based civil service: evidence from a nationwide teacher reform in Mexico 

Bedoya, Juan; de Hoyos, Rafael; Estrada, Ricardo (CAF, 2023-07)
This paper studies the effect of a civil service reform on the skills profile of new teachers in Mexico. The reform mandated the use of rule-based recruitment over discretionary hiring. Our results show that the reform ...
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Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru 

Estrada, Ricardo; Gignoux, Jérémie; Hatrick, Agustina (CAF, 2021-03-29)
This paper studies how the admission of a student to an elite school changes the schooling outcomes of younger cohorts in the student’s origin school in Peru. Using a sharp regression discontinuity design, the analysis ...
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Políticas para reducir las brechas educativas en la pospandemia 

Berniell, Lucila; Díaz, Bibiam; Estrada, Ricardo; Hatrick, Agustina; Llambí, Cecilia; Maris, Lesbia; Singer, Dinorah (CAF, 2021-08-17)
El cierre sin precedentes de las escuelas en casi todos los países y el efecto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en los ingresos y el bienestar de las familias han afectado negativamente los aprendizajes y la trayectoria educativa ...
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Family Rules: Nepotism in the Mexican Judiciary 

Brassiolo, Pablo; Estrada, Ricardo; Fajardo, Gustavo; Martínez-Correa, Julian (CAF, 2021-10-19)
We show that bureaucrats can exploit discretion in hiring decisions to engage in forms of favoritism that hinder organizational performance. We do this in the context of the Mexican federal judiciary. The arrival of a judge ...
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