We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …

of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We … also find that pro-vision of feedback reduces the gap between teachers. self-assessment and students. assessment, but only …

down the effect of central exit exams on learning in the last year before the exam and (ii) separate test scores for … active and tend to be more performance oriented. Students, although showing a better performance, are less motivated in …

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