We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …

ideal for investigating this question. There, students are placed in exam schools based on a high-stakes national … large achievement gains and improved university placements for high achieving students. …

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and … gains from reallocating teachers within a district. Using an estimated equilibrium model of the teacher labor market, we … find that achieving most of these gains requires directly affecting teachers' preferences over schools. In contrast …

This paper examines the relationship between teacher unionization, student achievement and teachers’ pay using a cross …

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

We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001-02 and … 2006-07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4-8 teachers leaving for other … for the same teachers while in the classroom, suggesting that existing compensation systems do not account for the higher …

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 … subjects. We circumvent omitted-variable and selection biases using student and teacher fixed effects and observing teachers …

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 …