Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector

87 Pages Posted: 13 Nov 2019 Last revised: 21 Nov 2022

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Pablo Munoz

Universidad de Chile

Mounu Prem

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)

Date Written: November 21, 2022

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. We measure principals’ effectiveness using an extension of the canonical teacher value-added model and we evaluate the effect of the reform 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.

Keywords: Public sector, Recruitment, School principals, Managers

JEL Classification: J3, J8, M5, I2

Suggested Citation

Munoz, Pablo and Prem, Mounu, Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector (November 21, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3480718 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3480718

Pablo Munoz (Contact Author)

Universidad de Chile ( email )

Beauchef 851, Santiago
Santiago, R. Metropolitana 7520421
Chile

HOME PAGE: http://https://sites.google.com/view/pablomh

Mounu Prem

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) ( email )

Via Due Macelli, 73
Rome, 00187
Italy

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