We study talent allocation in an economy where teachers play a crucial role in forming the workforce’s human capital. We define a Roy model with an externality in the occupational choice because teachers’ quantity and quality are essential to workers’ human capital. Then, when individuals...

This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. We explore a centralized matching process in the city of Sao Paulo that teachers must use when transferring schools. Because teachers have to list and rank their preferences for schools, we can estimate the...