(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and … noncognitive abilities. In contrast, these effects are not observed for subject teachers who are responsible only for teaching …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

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 … results are robust to potential endogenous matching between students and teachers …

changes in family and school inputs, and in the student commitment to learn all school subjects including those usually … 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 …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …

Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …-effects estimation. Students' own and peer GPAs and their attitudes towards economics have the largest effects on value-added scores. We …

students compared to teachers with initially lower performing students. In addition, some differences are detected even when … compute teacher value-added. Finally, the paper offers a policy simulation which demonstrates that teachers who face students … characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it …

theory at the micro (student) level. Specifically, since parents have at least some agency over primary school students … student absenteeism. Similarly, student suspensions reflect students' relationships with their teacher, students' comfort … level in the classroom, and teachers' discretion in the referral of misbehavior. These academically and socially important …

-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …

teachers are not aligned with test scores, with the disparities in grading exceeding those in testing outcomes and uniformly … as girls on reading, math and science tests are nevertheless graded less favorably by their teachers, but this less …