A growing literature establishes that good teachers are essential for high quality educational systems. However, little … is known about teachers' skills formation during their college years. In this paper we use a novel panel data set … college, teachers' skills vis-à-vis those in other majors deteriorate in quantitative reasoning, although they deteriorate …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences … corresponding to their subfields of college majors. Teaching practices explain about half of the effect of teachers' major fields …

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student … also shows the class size effects are not mitigated for students with greater knowledge of the UK university system, this …

are not more positively selected based on their high-school outcomes, but they achieve higher college grades, sort into … higher-paying occupations, and earn higher wages conditional on their grades. We find similar but less robust patterns for …

-term disadvantages in terms of employment, wages or both. Using two UK cohort studies, that allow us to follow individuals for at least …

The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest … Schools of a Russell Group University in the UK. As well as estimating Fixed Effects models on the population of postgraduate … (RDD). We find that class size does impact grades adversely overall; and the policy aimed at reducing class size impacts …

Using nine waves of data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), we study the expansion of higher education in the UK …