Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315945 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01689
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper examines how the act of giving advice to others can serve as a tool for self-persuasion in high-stakes decisions. We tested this hypothesis in Perus nationwide teacher selection process, involving over 74,000 candidates. By prompting teachers to advise peers on selecting schools for maximum educational impact, we observe a significant shift in their own choices: an increased probability of choosing and being assigned to hard-to-staff schools, institutions serving disadvantaged areas that are typically understaffed. In line with recent literature on behavioral sciences, our findings demonstrate that advising others can influence ones own consequential decisions. This insight offers a cost-effective approach to mitigating teacher sorting and reducing educational inequality. It also corroborates the validity of the giving advice effect in a high-stakes, real-world context using a large sample.
Subjects: 
Teachers
teacher policy
teacher shortages
behavioral
giving advice
JEL: 
D91
I23
I25
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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