BREAD Working Paper No. 599, October 2021

Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru Matteo Bobba, Tim Ederer, Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta, Christopher A. Neilson and Marco Nieddu   Abstract This paper studies how increasing teacher compensation at hard-to-staff schools can reduce inequality in access to qualified teachers. Leveraging an unconditional change in the teacher compensation structure in […]

BREAD Working Paper No. 525, July 2018

Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters Christopher Hansman, Jonas Hjort,Gianmarco León, Matthieu Teachout Abstract We study the relationship between firms’ output quality and their choice of organizational structure. To do so, we use data on each step of the production and transaction chain that makes up Peruvian fishmeal manufacturing. We first show […]