Managers’ Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector
研究智利公务员改革如何通过提高选拔过程的竞争性和透明度，使公立学校任命更有效的管理者并改善学生成绩，对关注公共部门人才招聘和绩效的学者有参考价值。
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.