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Authors

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  Soledad De Gregorio

  University of Southern California; now at Abt Global

  Led the study

  An applied economist whose research uses quantitative methods to study social policy — particularly housing, homelessness and education — and how these shape outcomes for families and children. PhD in Public Policy, University of Southern California; MPP, UCLA; BA in Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

  Contribution: Investigation, formal analysis, visualization, project administration and the original draft — sole lead on each under the CRediT statement. She ran the field study that produced the data and carried out the analysis built on it.

  • sites.google.com
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  Christopher A. Neilson

  Yale University

  Corresponding author

  Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale University, and founder of ConsiliumBots and TetherEducation. His research concerns education markets and policy design, in collaboration with governments across Latin America.

  Contribution: Supervision, data curation and funding acquisition.

  • christopherneilson.github.io
  • christopher.neilson@yale.edu
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  Sebastián Gallegos

  Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

  Assistant Professor of Economics at the UAI Business School in Chile, and a research fellow of IZA and the HCEO working group at the University of Chicago. PhD from the University of Chicago Harris School with a field specialization in economics; previously a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton.

  Contribution: Methodology and framing.

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Cite this paper

@unpublished{degregorio_neilson_gallegos_2026,
  author    = {De Gregorio, Soledad and Neilson, Christopher A. and Gallegos, Sebasti\'an},
  title     = {Teacher Preparation, Pre-College Human Capital and Student Learning:
               Evidence from Ense\~na Chile},
  note      = {Working paper, under review},
  year      = {2026},
  month     = {August}
}

Contact

Questions about the paper, the replication package or the teaching materials go to Christopher A. Neilson, Yale University.