We use a reform that was recently implemented in Italy to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more … set out the comparison of similar students undergoing alternative progression rules, and to shed light on whether, and to … across curricular tracks, picturing at best – depending on the data employed – a marginal improvement for students in …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

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 …

Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent … findings suggest there may be value in altering the way teachers are allocated to secondary schools in Italy …

student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are …

We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating … interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the … effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …

College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance …