a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in … disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms in early high school in … students that contains a large and diverse set of school qualities, and household incomes, and b) we measure disruption and …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

are more detrimental for the math and reading achievement of boys and the reading achievement of low-income students …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …

Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the … evidence that the academic achievement of immigrant children in early adolescence is an accurate predictor of later life … outcomes. We also examine a novel hypothesis that relative academic performance of immigrant children in high school compared …

affluent families; time use evidence indicates that this is likely because affluent parents are more involved in their children … important as teacher assignment for student learning. Furthermore, they have a relatively larger impact on students from …