-random distribution of teachers and students among classrooms within schools. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials affect … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …

Growing concerns over the achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or … students' test scores into components attributed to student heterogeneity and to teacher quality. Implicit in the VAM approach … are strong assumptions about the nature of the educational production function and the assignment of students to …

schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This …

schooling in Israeli kibbutzim. This pay reform, which induced kibbutz students to improve their academic achievements during … high school, spilled over to non-kibbutz members who attended schools with these kibbutz students. In the short run, peers … of kibbutz students improved their high school outcomes and shifted to courses with higher financial returns. In the …

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …

-school-educated youth. We use a sample of young adults that migrated to the U.S. as children to implement a difference-in-differences design …

adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …