student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To … circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student heterogeneity, we exploit variation within students across math and reading … teacher sorting. Furthermore, teacher knowledge and school resources appear to be complements in student learning …

-run outcomes of students. Using American Community Survey (ACS) data linked to each respondent's state of birth, we examine labor … worsens the future labor market outcomes of students: living in a state that has a duty-to-bargain law for all 12 grade … that support collective bargaining for teachers have adverse long-term labor market consequences for students …

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes …-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian 6th-grade dataset that tested both students and their teachers in two …

Recent studies conclude that teachers are important for student learning but it remains uncertain what actually …

Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains …. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of … instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow learning profiles are in part the result of curricular paces moving much …