the role of parental influences on occupational choice by testing whether the children of teachers are disproportionately … likely to become teachers themselves and whether the intergenerational transmission of teaching varies by race or sex …. Overall, children whose mothers are teachers are 9 percentage points (or more than two times) more likely to enter teaching …

also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK … terms of education, earnings, and employment …

investigates the development in intergenerational education mobility in Germany for the birth cohorts 1929 through 1978 and tests …Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve equality of … opportunity, i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence …

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 …

Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …

teacher value-added estimates are typically 25% to more than 50% larger for teachers serving initially higher performing … 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 …