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Ricardo Estrada

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https://sites.google.com/site/ricardoaestradamartinez/
Twitter: @restradamtz

Affiliation

Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) - Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina

Caracas, Venezuela
http://www.caf.com/
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Research output

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Working papers

  1. Ricardo Estrada & Jérémie Gignoux & Agustina Hatrick, 2025. "Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru," Post-Print halshs-04928802, HAL.
  2. Estrada, Ricardo & Lombardi, María, 2023. "Skills and selection into teaching: evidence from Latin America," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120906, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  3. Bedoya,Juan & De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E. & Estrada,Ricardo, 2023. "Rule-Based Civil Service : Evidence from a Nationwide Teacher Reform in Mexico," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10540, The World Bank.
  4. María Lombardi & Ricardo Estrada, 2022. "Should I stay or should I go? The effect of high dismissal protection on the turnover and productivity of public sector employees," Department of Economics Working Papers wp_gob_2022_1, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
  5. De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E. & Estrada,Ricardo & Vargas Mancera,Maria Jose, 2021. "Do Large-Scale Student Assessments Really Capture Cognitive Skills ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9537, The World Bank.
  6. P Brassiolo & R Estrada & G Fajardo & J. F Vargas, 2020. "Self-Selection into Corruption: Evidence from the Lab," Documentos de Trabajo 18179, Universidad del Rosario.
  7. Ricardo Estrada & María Lombardi, 2020. "Skills and Selection into Teaching: Evidence from Latin America," Department of Economics Working Papers wp_gob_2020_10, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
  8. De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E. & Estrada,Ricardo & Vargas,Maria Jose, 2018. "Predicting individual wellbeing through test scores : evidence from a national assessment in Mexico," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8459, The World Bank.
  9. Inés Berniell & Ricardo Estrada, 2017. "Poor Little Children: The Socio economic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0219, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
  10. Estrada, Ricardo, 2016. "The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on Stratification," Economics Working Papers MWP2016/02, European University Institute.
  11. Estrada, Ricardo, 2015. "Rules Rather than Discretion: Teacher Hiring and Rent Extraction," Economics Working Papers MWP2015/14, European University Institute.
  12. Estrada, Ricardo & Gignoux, Jérémie, 2014. "Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) 1407, CEPREMAP.
  13. Baz, Verónica & Capelo, Maria Cristina & Centeno, Rodrigo & Estrada, Ricardo, 2010. "Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Mexico," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 3968, Inter-American Development Bank.

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Articles

  1. Bedoya, Juan & de Hoyos, Rafael & Estrada, Ricardo, 2026. "Rule-based civil service: Evidence from a nationwide teacher reform in Mexico," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
  2. Ricardo Estrada & Jérémie Gignoux & Agustina Hatrick, 2025. "Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 135(671), pages 2220-2241.
  3. Baez, Maria Josefina & Brassiolo, Pablo & Estrada, Ricardo & Fajardo, Gustavo, 2022. "Going subnational: Wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).
  4. Estrada, Ricardo, 2022. "The effect of the demand for elite schools on stratification," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 215(C).
  5. Brassiolo, Pablo & Estrada, Ricardo & Fajardo, Gustavo & Vargas, Juan, 2021. "Self-Selection into corruption: Evidence from the lab," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 192(C), pages 799-812.
  6. de Hoyos, Rafael & Estrada, Ricardo & Vargas, María José, 2021. "What do test scores really capture? Evidence from a large-scale student assessment in Mexico," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
  7. Brassiolo, Pablo & Estrada, Ricardo & Fajardo, Gustavo, 2020. "My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 191(C).
  8. Berniell, Inés & Estrada, Ricardo, 2020. "Poor little children: The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
  9. Ricardo Estrada, 2019. "Rules versus Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 37(2), pages 545-579.
  10. Estrada, Ricardo & Gignoux, Jérémie, 2017. "Benefits to elite schools and the expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 168-194.

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Citations

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Working papers

  1. Ricardo Estrada & Jérémie Gignoux & Agustina Hatrick, 2025. "Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru," Post-Print halshs-04928802, HAL.

    Cited by:

    1. Estrada, Ricardo, 2022. "The effect of the demand for elite schools on stratification," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 215(C).

  2. P Brassiolo & R Estrada & G Fajardo & J. F Vargas, 2020. "Self-Selection into Corruption: Evidence from the Lab," Documentos de Trabajo 18179, Universidad del Rosario.

    Cited by:

    1. Bahník, Štěpán & Houdek, Petr & Hudík, Marek & Say, Nicolas, 2025. "The limited role of prosocial behavior in preventing others from being dishonest," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 117(C).
    2. Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Raanan & Tepe, Markus & Alon-Barkat, Saar & Erlbruch, Florian & Yair, Omer & Jankowski, Michael & Prokop, Christine, 2025. "Public sector culture does not increase honest behavior: Evidence from RCTs in five countries," OSF Preprints h29mq_v1, Center for Open Science.
    3. Čellárová, Katarína & Staněk, Rostislav, 2024. "Contest and resource allocation: An experimental analysis of entitlement and self-selection effects," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    4. Vranka, Marek Albert & Hudik, Marek & Frollova, Nikola & Bahník, Štěpán & Sýkorová, Markéta & Houdek, Petr, 2021. "Honesty of Online Workers: A Field Experiment shows no Evidence of Self-Selection of Cheaters to a Cheating-enabling Work Environment," OSF Preprints zvsdb, Center for Open Science.
    5. Xun, Yang, 2024. "Corruption and Talent Allocation," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1526, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.

  3. De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E. & Estrada,Ricardo & Vargas,Maria Jose, 2018. "Predicting individual wellbeing through test scores : evidence from a national assessment in Mexico," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8459, The World Bank.

    Cited by:

    1. Mira G. Potter-Schwartz, 2022. "Estimating Teacher Quality: Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 50(3), pages 159-170, December.
    2. Behrman, J. & Parker, S. & Todd, P. & Zhang, W., 2021. "Prospering through Prospera: CCT Impacts on Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2178, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    3. Somdeep Chatterjee & Shiv Hastawala & Jai Kamal, 2023. "(En‐)‘lightening’ children: Assessing the impacts of access to electricity on learning achievement levels," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(4), pages 2489-2517, November.
    4. Michaelsen, Maren M. & Salardi, Paola, 2020. "Violence, psychological stress and educational performance during the “war on drugs” in Mexico," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).
    5. Jere R. Behrman & Susan W. Parker & Petra Todd & Weilong Zhang, 2025. "Prospering through Prospera: A dynamic model of CCT impacts on educational attainment and achievement in Mexico," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 16(1), pages 133-183, January.
    6. Ricardo Estrada & María Lombardi, 2020. "Skills and Selection into Teaching: Evidence from Latin America," Department of Economics Working Papers wp_gob_2020_10, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

  4. Inés Berniell & Ricardo Estrada, 2017. "Poor Little Children: The Socio economic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0219, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

    Cited by:

    1. Borra, Cristina & González, Libertad & Patiño, David, 2021. "Maternal Age and Infant Health," CINCH Working Paper Series (since 2020) 74847, Duisburg-Essen University Library, DuEPublico.
    2. Zhao, Yuejun & Markussen, Simen & Røed, Knut, 2024. "School Starting Age and the Social Gradient in Educational Outcomes," IZA Discussion Papers 16851, IZA Network @ LISER.
    3. Lopez-Mayan, Cristina & Montresor, Giulia & Nicodemo, Catia, 2024. "School Entry Age Policy and Adolescent Risk–Taking," IZA Discussion Papers 17589, IZA Network @ LISER.
    4. Borra, Cristina & González, Libertad & Patiño, David, 2023. "School Starting Age and Infant Health," IZA Discussion Papers 16676, IZA Network @ LISER.
    5. Caterina Calsamiglia & Annalisa Loviglio, 2020. "Maturity and school outcomes in an inflexible system: evidence from Catalonia," SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 11(1), pages 1-49, March.
    6. Cavallo, Mariagrazia & Dhuey, Elizabeth & Fumarco, Luca & Halewyck, Levi & ter Meulen, Simon, 2026. "The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods," IZA Discussion Papers 18373, IZA Network @ LISER.
    7. Nora Lustig & Valentina Martinez Pabon & Guido Neidhöfer & Mariano Tommasi, 2020. "Short and Long-Run Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America," Working Papers 2013, Tulane University, Department of Economics.
    8. Cristina Borra & Libertad González & David Patiño, 2024. "Mothers' school starting age and infant health," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(6), pages 1153-1191, June.
    9. Ismael Sanz & J .D. Tenaa, 2020. "A Natural Experiment on the Effect of Instruction Time and Quality: Lessons for the Covid-19 Outbreak," Working Papers 202032, University of Liverpool, Department of Economics.
    10. Chang, Simon & Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. & Salamanca, Nicolás, 2022. "Parents’ responses to teacher qualifications," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 197(C), pages 419-446.
    11. Sergi Sánchez-Coll, 2023. "Born this way: the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes," SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 14(1), pages 105-141, March.
    12. Jung, Hoyong, 2025. "Freed students, unsatisfied parents: Evidence from the Free Semester Program in South Korea," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).

  5. Estrada, Ricardo, 2016. "The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on Stratification," Economics Working Papers MWP2016/02, European University Institute.

    Cited by:

    1. Estrada, Ricardo, 2022. "The effect of the demand for elite schools on stratification," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 215(C).
    2. Ricardo Estrada & Jérémie Gignoux & Agustina Hatrick, 2024. "Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru," PSE Working Papers halshs-04350164, HAL.
    3. Chen, Li & Sebastián Pereyra, Juan, 2019. "Self-selection in school choice," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 59-81.

  6. Estrada, Ricardo, 2015. "Rules Rather than Discretion: Teacher Hiring and Rent Extraction," Economics Working Papers MWP2015/14, European University Institute.

    Cited by:

    1. Alessandra Fenizia & Christos A. Makridis, 2026. "Personnel Reform and the Federal Workforce," CESifo Working Paper Series 12517, CESifo.
    2. Tatiana Mocanu, 2024. "Designing Gender Equity: Evidence from Hiring Practices," CESifo Working Paper Series 11523, CESifo.
    3. Crawfurd, Lee & Pugatch, Todd, 2020. "Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries," IZA Discussion Papers 12985, IZA Network @ LISER.
    4. Barrera-Osorio, Felipe & Gertler,Paul J. & Nakajima,Nozomi & Patrinos,Harry Anthony, 2020. "Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9462, The World Bank.
    5. Bobba, Matteo & Ederer, Tim & Nieddu, Marco & Leon-Ciliotta, Gianmarco & Neilson, Christopher, 2021. "Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru," TSE Working Papers 21-1232, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), revised Mar 2024.
    6. Luca J. Uberti & Drini Imami & Mariapia Mendola, 2025. "Votes for Work? Job Patronage and Electoral Mobilization in Albania," Working Papers 561, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics.
    7. Muñoz, Pablo & Otero, Cristóbal, 2025. "Managers and Public Hospital Performance," CINCH Working Paper Series (since 2020) 83337, Duisburg-Essen University Library, DuEPublico.
    8. Alfonso, Mariana & Busso, Matias & Ñopo, Hugo & Rivera, Antonella & Yentzen, Triana, 2025. "Becoming a teacher: Experimental evidence from an information intervention," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
    9. De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E. & Estrada,Ricardo & Vargas Mancera,Maria Jose, 2021. "Do Large-Scale Student Assessments Really Capture Cognitive Skills ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9537, The World Bank.
    10. Moreira, Diana B. & Perez, Santiago, 2022. "Who Benefits from Meritocracy?," IZA Discussion Papers 15341, IZA Network @ LISER.
    11. Jonas Radbruch & Amelie Schiprowski, 2020. "Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 045, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
    12. Mizuno, Nobuhiro & Okazawa, Ryosuke, 2025. "A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
    13. Busso, Matias & Montaño, Sebastián & Muñoz-Morales, Juan & Pope, Nolan G., 2024. "The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection: Evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 239(C).
    14. de Hoyos, Rafael & Estrada, Ricardo & Vargas, María José, 2021. "What do test scores really capture? Evidence from a large-scale student assessment in Mexico," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    15. World Bank, 2023. "Making Teacher Policy Work," World Bank Publications - Reports 40579, The World Bank Group.
    16. Brutti, Zelda & Sánchez Torres, Fabio, 2022. "Turning around teacher quality in Latin America: Renewed confidence and lessons from Colombia," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 62-93.
    17. Pablo Brassiolo & Ricardo Estrada Martinez & Gustavo Fajardo & Julian Martinez-Correa, 2021. "Family Rules: Nepotism in the Mexican Judiciary," Asociación Argentina de Economía Política: Working Papers 4443, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política.
    18. Brassiolo, Pablo & Estrada, Ricardo & Fajardo, Gustavo, 2020. "My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 191(C).
    19. Liu, Kevin Zhengcheng & Zhang, Xiaoming, 2025. "Discretion, talent allocation, and governance performance: Evidence from China’s imperial bureaucracy," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    20. World Bank, 2018. "World Development Report 2018 [Rapport sur le développement dans le monde 2018]," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 28340, April.
    21. Oana Borcan & James Merewood, 2022. "Positive Disruption? Meritocratic Principal Selection and Student Achievement," University of East Anglia School of Economics Working Paper Series 2022-11, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
    22. Uberti, Luca & Imami, Drini & Mendola, Mariapia, 2026. "Votes for Work? Job Patronage and Electoral Mobilization in Albania," IZA Discussion Papers 18510, IZA Network @ LISER.
    23. Claudio Lucifora & Marco Tonello, 2016. "Monitoring and sanctioning cheating at school: What works? Evidence from a national evaluation program," DISCE - Working Papers del Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza def051, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE).
    24. César O. Ramírez-García & Danny J. Lluguay-Quispillo & Jorge D. Inga-Lafebre & María F. Cuenca-Lozano & Rosa M. Ojeda-Zambrano & Carmen C. Cárdenas-Baque, 2023. "Musculoskeletal Disorders in Primary School Teachers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(23), pages 1-17, November.
    25. Mocanu, Tatiana, 2024. "Designing Gender Equity: Evidence from Hiring Practices," IZA Discussion Papers 17480, IZA Network @ LISER.
    26. Christopher Neilson & Sebastian Gallegos & Franco Calle & Mohit Karnani, 2022. "Screening and Recruiting Talent at Teacher Colleges Using Pre-College Academic Achievement," Working Papers 2022-004, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    27. Ricardo Estrada & María Lombardi, 2020. "Skills and Selection into Teaching: Evidence from Latin America," Department of Economics Working Papers wp_gob_2020_10, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
    28. Juan Saavedra & Dario Maldonado & Lucrecia Santibanez & Luis Omar Herrera Prada, 2017. "Premium or Penalty? Labor Market Returns to Novice Public Sector Teachers," NBER Working Papers 24012, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

  7. Estrada, Ricardo & Gignoux, Jérémie, 2014. "Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) 1407, CEPREMAP.

    Cited by:

    1. Andrew Dustan & Alain De janvry & Elisabeth Sadoulet, 2015. "Flourish or Fail? The Risky Reward of Elite High School Admission in Mexico City," Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers 15-00002, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics.
    2. Maren M. Michaelsen & Paola Salardi, 2018. "Violence, Psychological Stress and Educational Performance during the “War on Drugs†in Mexico," HiCN Working Papers 262, Households in Conflict Network.
    3. Padilla-Romo, María & Peluffo, Cecilia, 2023. "Persistence of the Spillover Effects of Violence and Educational Trajectories," IZA Discussion Papers 16374, IZA Network @ LISER.
    4. Dustan, Andrew & Ngo, Diana K.L., 2018. "Commuting to educational opportunity? School choice effects of mass transit expansion in Mexico City," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 116-133.
    5. Margherita Fort & Andrea Ichino & Enrico Rettore & Giulio Zanella, 2022. "Multicutoff RD designs with observations located at each cutoff: problems and solutions," FBK-IRVAPP Working Papers 2022-01, Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP), Bruno Kessler Foundation.
    6. De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E. & Estrada,Ricardo & Vargas Mancera,Maria Jose, 2021. "Do Large-Scale Student Assessments Really Capture Cognitive Skills ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9537, The World Bank.
    7. Cabrera-Hernández, Francisco & Padilla-Romo, María & Peluffo, Cecilia, 2022. "Full-Time Schools and Educational Trajectories: Evidence from High-Stakes Exams," IZA Discussion Papers 15602, IZA Network @ LISER.
    8. Maurin, Eric & Ly, Son-Thierry & Landaud, Fanny, 2016. "Competitive Schools and the Gender Gap in the Choice of Field of Study," CEPR Discussion Papers 11411, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
    9. Zhang, Kexin, 2023. "The long-term impact of higher education: Evidence from the Gaokao reinstatement in China," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    10. Dustan, Andrew, 2018. "Family networks and school choice," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 134(C), pages 372-391.
    11. de Hoyos, Rafael & Estrada, Ricardo & Vargas, María José, 2021. "What do test scores really capture? Evidence from a large-scale student assessment in Mexico," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    12. Cabrera-Hernández, Francisco & Dustan, Andrew & Osuna-Gomez, Daniel & Padilla-Romo, María, 2026. "Marginal Admission to Elite High Schools: Long-run Effects on Labor Market Outcomes," IZA Discussion Papers 18369, IZA Network @ LISER.
    13. Avitabile,Ciro & Bobba,Matteo & Pariguana,Marco, 2015. "High school track choice and financial constraints : evidence from urban Mexico," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7427, The World Bank.
    14. Luflade, Margaux & Zaiem, Meryam, 2024. "Do elite schools improve students performance? Evidence from Tunisia," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    15. Wu, Jia & Wei, Xiangdong & Zhang, Hongliang & Zhou, Xiang, 2019. "Elite schools, magnet classes, and academic performances: Regression-discontinuity evidence from China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 143-167.
    16. Maren M. Michaelsen & Paola Salardi, 2018. "Violence, Psychological Stress and Educational Performance during the "War on Drugs" in Mexico," Working Papers tecipa-595, University of Toronto, Department of Economics.
    17. Hans‐Peter Y. Qvist & Anders Holm & Martin D. Munk, 2021. "Demand and Supply Effects and Returns to College Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Engineers in Denmark," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 123(2), pages 676-704, April.
    18. Estrada, Ricardo, 2022. "The effect of the demand for elite schools on stratification," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 215(C).
    19. Eunsik Chang & María Padilla-Romo, 2019. "The Effects of Local Violent Crime on High-Stakes Tests," Working Papers 2019-03, University of Tennessee, Department of Economics.
    20. Bobba, Matteo & Frisancho, Veronica & Pariguana, Marco, 2023. "Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects," IZA Discussion Papers 16168, IZA Network @ LISER.
    21. Estrada, Ricardo, 2016. "The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on Stratification," Economics Working Papers MWP2016/02, European University Institute.
    22. Ibtihal Ferwana & Suyoung Park & Ting-Yi Wu & Lav R. Varshney, 2023. "Designing Discontinuities," Papers 2305.08559, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2023.
    23. Erendira Leon Bravo, . "Three essays on education, wages, and the labour market in Mexico," Economics PhD Theses, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School, number 0322, December.

  8. Baz, Verónica & Capelo, Maria Cristina & Centeno, Rodrigo & Estrada, Ricardo, 2010. "Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Mexico," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 3968, Inter-American Development Bank.

    Cited by:

Articles

  1. Ricardo Estrada & Jérémie Gignoux & Agustina Hatrick, 2025. "Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 135(671), pages 2220-2241.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Baez, Maria Josefina & Brassiolo, Pablo & Estrada, Ricardo & Fajardo, Gustavo, 2022. "Going subnational: Wage differentials across levels of government in Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Martinez, Tomás R. & Martins-Neto, Antonio & Mello, Ursula, 2025. "Gender and Top Lifetime Earnings Inequality: Ten New Facts from Brazil," IZA Discussion Papers 17602, IZA Network @ LISER.
    2. Van‐Phuc Phan & Martin O'Brien, 2025. "Is There a Public Sector Wage Premium in Vietnam? New Evidence From the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 64(3), pages 345-355, September.
    3. Liang, Qingquan & Zeng, Weihong & Yi, Lan, 2025. "Examining the wage gap between public and non-public sector in China: Insights from a robust quantile selection model," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).

  3. Brassiolo, Pablo & Estrada, Ricardo & Fajardo, Gustavo & Vargas, Juan, 2021. "Self-Selection into corruption: Evidence from the lab," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 192(C), pages 799-812.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  4. de Hoyos, Rafael & Estrada, Ricardo & Vargas, María José, 2021. "What do test scores really capture? Evidence from a large-scale student assessment in Mexico," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).

    Cited by:

    1. D’Agostino, TJ & Liu, Cheng & Soares, Fernanda & Conaghan, Brianna & Brunette, Tracy & Nakamura, Pooja Reddy & Donovan, Ciara & Pentimonti, Jill, 2025. "Seeing emerging comprehenders: Refining reading comprehension assessment in international contexts," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 117(C).
    2. Cabrera-Hernández, Francisco & Padilla-Romo, María & Peluffo, Cecilia, 2022. "Full-Time Schools and Educational Trajectories: Evidence from High-Stakes Exams," IZA Discussion Papers 15602, IZA Network @ LISER.
    3. Arceo-Gomez, Eva O. & López-Feldman, Alejandro, 2024. "Extreme temperatures and school performance of the poor: Evidence from Mexico," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 238(C).
    4. Sarah Gust & Eric A. Hanushek & Ludger Woessmann, 2023. "Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 373, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
    5. Vu, Tien Manh & Yamada, Hiroyuki, 2022. "Returns to test scores in Vietnam," MPRA Paper 111714, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Griselda, Silvia, 2024. "Gender gap in standardized tests: What are we measuring?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 221(C), pages 191-229.
    7. Padilla-Romo, María, 2022. "Full-time schools, policy-induced school switching, and academic performance," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 196(C), pages 79-103.
    8. Jere R. Behrman & Susan W. Parker & Petra Todd & Weilong Zhang, 2025. "Prospering through Prospera: A dynamic model of CCT impacts on educational attainment and achievement in Mexico," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 16(1), pages 133-183, January.
    9. Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Psacharopoulos, George, 2025. "The Effect of Raising School Quality on Earnings," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1616, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    10. Padilla-Romo, María & Peluffo, Cecilia, 2025. "Moving for Good: Educational Gains from Leaving Violence Behind," IZA Discussion Papers 18155, IZA Network @ LISER.

  5. Brassiolo, Pablo & Estrada, Ricardo & Fajardo, Gustavo, 2020. "My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 191(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Jörg L. Spenkuch & Edoardo Teso & Guo Xu, 2023. "Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 91(4), pages 1171-1203, July.
    2. Bedoya,Juan & De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E. & Estrada,Ricardo, 2023. "Rule-Based Civil Service : Evidence from a Nationwide Teacher Reform in Mexico," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10540, The World Bank.
    3. Callen, Mike & Gulzarz, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaeek, Arman, 2023. "The political economy of public sector absence," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117390, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Pedro Forquesato, 2022. "Who Benefits from Political Connections in Brazilian Municipalities," Papers 2204.09450, arXiv.org.
    5. Luisa Schneider & Daniela Wech & Matthias Wrede, 2022. "Political alignment and project funding," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 29(6), pages 1561-1589, December.
    6. Pablo Brassiolo & Ricardo Estrada Martinez & Gustavo Fajardo & Julian Martinez-Correa, 2021. "Family Rules: Nepotism in the Mexican Judiciary," Asociación Argentina de Economía Política: Working Papers 4443, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política.
    7. Liu, Kevin Zhengcheng & Zhang, Xiaoming, 2025. "Discretion, talent allocation, and governance performance: Evidence from China’s imperial bureaucracy," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    8. Barbosa, Klenio & Ferreira, Fernando, 2023. "Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 221(C).
    9. Nikolaj Broberg & Tuuli Tähtinen & Thomas Walsh, 2025. "Making the Cut: Close Elections and Local Welfare Policy," CESifo Working Paper Series 12358, CESifo.

  6. Berniell, Inés & Estrada, Ricardo, 2020. "Poor little children: The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  7. Ricardo Estrada, 2019. "Rules versus Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 37(2), pages 545-579.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  8. Estrada, Ricardo & Gignoux, Jérémie, 2017. "Benefits to elite schools and the expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 168-194.
    See citations under working paper version above.

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  1. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (19) 2014-03-15 2014-04-05 2014-09-25 2015-09-26 2016-03-23 2017-09-10 2017-09-10 2017-09-10 2018-02-12 2018-03-19 2020-08-24 2021-12-13 2021-12-20 2022-07-11 2022-07-18 2022-11-14 2023-07-24 2024-01-08 2025-02-24. Author is listed
  2. NEP-EDU: Education (12) 2014-03-15 2014-04-05 2014-09-25 2015-09-26 2016-03-23 2017-09-10 2017-09-10 2017-09-10 2018-02-12 2018-03-19 2022-11-14 2025-02-24. Author is listed
  3. NEP-DEV: Development (7) 2010-12-11 2017-09-10 2020-08-24 2021-12-13 2023-07-24 2024-11-25 2025-03-17. Author is listed
  4. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (3) 2020-05-18 2020-06-08 2020-06-29
  5. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (3) 2020-05-18 2020-06-08 2020-06-29
  6. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (2) 2022-07-18 2022-07-18
  7. NEP-EUR: Microeconomic European Issues (2) 2018-02-12 2018-03-19
  8. NEP-LAM: Central and South America (2) 2020-06-08 2024-01-08
  9. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (1) 2022-07-18
  10. NEP-INV: Investment (1) 2025-02-24
  11. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2015-09-26
  12. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (1) 2022-07-18
  13. NEP-NEU: Neuroeconomics (1) 2022-11-14
  14. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (1) 2020-01-27

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