TY  - GEN
AU  - Busso, Matías
AU  - Alfonso, Mariana
AU  - Ñopo, Hugo R.
AU  - Rivera Bianchi, Antonella Maria
AU  - Yentzen, Triana
TI  - Becoming a Teacher: Experimental Evidence from an Information Intervention
PY  - 2024
Y1  - 2024/11/13
DO  - 10.18235/0013244
AB  - Education systems seeking to improve outcomes must attract, develop, and retain highly effective teachers. A critical challenge is making the teaching profession appealing to talented youth. This paper presents evidence from an experiment in Peru, where we provided high school seniors with information about recent reforms to the teaching career. Wefi nd positive effects on both the extensive and intensive margins: treated students were more likely to enroll in higher education and to choose an education major.
These results suggest that career incentives and information can shape not only the current teaching workforce but also future cohorts.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0013244
ER  -