Assist. Prof. Tim Ederer

Teacher Labor Market

Tim Ederer’s research seeks to understand the empirical content of two-sided matching models and apply these tools to study the drivers of sorting and inequality in various settings. His methodological work consists of providing identification results and estimation procedures for preferences of participants in two-sided matching markets. His empirical work has primarily focused on applying these tools to the teacher labor market by studying how wage rigidity, non-pecuniary amenities and dynamic incentives lead to unequal and inefficient teacher-student allocations.

While visiting CES, Mr. Ederer will work on two ongoing projects that fit within this agenda. The first seeks to incorporate equilibrium wage setting in empirical models of two-sided matching to better understand and quantify the rents earned by workers and firms in labor markets with imperfect competition. The second project studies how managers differ in their ability to extract signals and update their beliefs about workers’ latent productivity throughout the hiring process, using rich data on teacher recruitment by school principals. Additionally, he will be presenting his work at the Empirical Economics Seminar.

Tim Ederer is an Assistant Professor at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics and did a one-year postdoc as a Saieh Family Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.