complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their … understanding of the material. This paper addresses the question that is at the heart of these complaints: Do foreign-born teaching … university. The data suggest that foreign-born Teaching Assistants have an adverse impact on the class performance of …

women's access to high-skill occupations outside teaching and to salary premiums for teachers …

student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … questionnaires, we also find that school inputs such as computer labs, teaching supplies, and teacher training are reduced in the …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil … market outcomes while others may hinder them. Two practices predict improvements in all labor market outcomes in Brazil and …