Matias Busso
Working Papers
1. "Helping Struggling Students and Benefiting All: Peer Effects in Primary Education", with Samuel Berlinski and Michele Giannola. Revised and resubmitted.
2. "Improving Early Literacy through Teacher Professional Development: Experimental Evidence from Colombia", with Horacio Alvarez, Samuel Berlinski, and Julian Martinez-Correa. Revised and resubmitted.
3. "The Unintended Consequences of Merit-based Teacher Selection: Evidence from Large-scale Reform in Colombia", with Sebastian Montaño, Juan S. Muñoz-Morales, and Nolan Pope. Submitted.
4. "The Effectiveness of Managerial Skills Training Programs: A Meta-Analytic Review", with Kyunglin Park and Nicolás Irazoque. Submitted.
5. "Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates", with Sebastian Montaño and Juan S. Muñoz-Morales. Submitted.
6. “Peer Effects and Academic Achievement: Experimental Evidence from Ability Grouping in Mexico” with Veronica Frisancho. Submitted.
7. "Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets", with Juan Pablo Chauvin.
8. “Unbundling Returns to Skills: Evidence from Postsecondary Education in Colombia” with Juan Sebastian Muñoz [Paper]
9. "Preferences for Redistribution in Latin America", with Ana Maria Ibañez, Julian Messina, and Juliana Quigua.
10. "Corruption Perceptions and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Latin America", with Ana Maria Ibañez and Julian Messina
11. “Civil Service Reform and Self-Selection into Teaching: Experimental Evidence from an Information Intervention” with Mariana Alfonso, Hugo Ñopo and Triana Yentzen [Paper]