Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Juan Saavedra

Public Policy Program, Public Policy Program

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Juan E. Saavedra is a PhD candidate in Public Policy. His primary fields of interest are labor economics, applied econometrics and economics of education. His current research explores the effects of tutoring and remedial education interventions on academic performance, time use and juvenile delinquency. Other research explores the causes of voucher heterogeneity, the mechanisms by which secondary school vouchers improve academic outcomes and its implications for the design of school choice policies, using evidence from a randomized natural experiment in Colombia.