Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more … probability that he drops out of high school, particularly among the most economically disadvantaged black males. Exposure to at … identification strategies, including an instrumental variables strategy that exploits within-school, intertemporal variation in the …

driven by declines in high school peer quality and educational investments that result in lower non-cognitive skill …

admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in …. Teachers react most strongly to direct measures of student ability, grades from compulsory school, rather than to other …

We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response …

organizations. Primary school classrooms provide an ideal context in which to test the predictions of representative bureaucracy … theory at the micro (student) level. Specifically, since parents have at least some agency over primary school students …' daily attendance, absences reflect parental assessments of their child's school, classroom, and teacher. The …

program modestly increased primary school students' non-cognitive skills in the short-term; these impacts on non …