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| dc.title | Teachers' Preferences for Proximity and the Implications for Staffing Schools: Evidence from Peru |
| dc.contributor.author | Bertoni, Eleonora |
| dc.contributor.author | Elacqua, Gregory |
| dc.contributor.author | Hincapie, Diana |
| dc.contributor.author | Méndez, Carolina |
| dc.contributor.author | Paredes, Diana |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Education Division |
| dc.coverage | Peru |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-05T12:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2019-10-31T11:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper explores rank-ordered teacher candidates’ preferences for public schools in Peru by analyzing the 2015 teacher hiring process. Our analysis shows that, in seeking permanent positions in public schools, candidates appear to search closer to where they attended their Teacher Education Program (TEP) and prefer to work in urban areas. Moreover, candidates seem to prefer schools with higher enrollment, basic services and located in wealthier areas. These preferences vary by candidates’ attributes. Proximity from their TEP seems to be particularly important for females, while urbanicity is more relevant for candidates with high scores in the national teacher test and older than 35 years old. When controlling for previous workplace location, TEP locations and urbanicity play a less important role in teacher preferences. Understanding which school characteristics teachers value the most can help us design new policies and modify the existing ones to attract teachers to hard-to-staff schools. |
| dc.format.extent | 51 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0001977 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Teachers_Preferences_for_Proximity_and_the_Implications_for_Staffing_Schools_Evidence_from_Peru_en.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Labor Market |
| dc.subject | Public School |
| dc.subject | Teaching Effectiveness |
| dc.subject | Teacher Recruitment |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I24 - Education and Inequality |
| dc.subject.jelcode | H75 - State and Local Government: Health • Education • Welfare • Public Pensions |
| dc.subject.jelcode | N36 - Latin America • Caribbean |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J38 - Public Policy |
| dc.subject.keywords | Teacher hiring; Teacher preferences; Teacher labor markets; Peru |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | IDB-WP-01073 |
| idb.operation | RG-K1062 |