I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Tepper School of Business in Carnegie Mellon University. In 2023-2024, I was a Saieh Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.
I work on labor economics and econometrics.Â
Link to CV here. Contact: tederer@andrew.cmu.edu.
Working Papers
An Empirical Model of Dynamic Two-Sided Matching: Application to the Teacher Labor Market, March 2023, revised February 2026. (Previously circulated as "Labor Market Dynamics and Teacher Spatial Sorting"). Selected for the REStud North America Tour 2023.
Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality (with Matteo Bobba, Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta, Christopher Neilson and Marco Nieddu), NBER WP 29068, July 2021, revised January 2026. (Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy)
An Empirical Framework for Many-to-One Matching Markets, TSE Working Paper 1340, June 2022, revised December 2025. (Conditionally Accepted, Quantitative Economics)
Work in progress
Dynamic Matching with Contracts
Discretionary Hiring and Inequality: Evidence from School Principals (with Matteo Bobba, Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta, Christopher Neilson and Marco Nieddu)