significantly affects the share of education majors that are employed as teachers at the time of the survey. …

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy … skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others …. These results imply that the scope to improve teachers' skills varies between countries and that policy makers should take …

nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …

-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that schools in labor markets with better outside options for teachers saw relatively … higher increases in teacher pay. Schools in these areas relatively increase their spending on teachers, have higher teacher … resources, by preventing such schools from retaining their teachers. …

standardized test, where the principal and teachers of the top 20 percent of schools receive a substantial bonus. We perform a … explanations, and argue that this zero effect could be a consequence of teachers' uncertainty about how to improve their students …

an under-explored dimension; the allocation of public sector teachers in India. Using a register database for 2006-12, we … construct indicators for the equality of teacher allocation and workplace segregation of teachers by gender and caste within …

I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade …

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing … to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their … salary structure, retirement benefits, performance pay, class size, and time-to-tenure. (2) Highly rated teachers have …

We study racial bias and the persistence of first impressions in the context of education. Teachers who begin their … and fifth graders in North Carolina. Negative first impressions lead teachers to be significantly less likely to over …-rate but not more likely to under-rate black students' math and reading skills relative to their white classmates. Teachers …

of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as a year after the … receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the …