curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi … when they have more choice options in the training curriculum because of (1) the higher productivity of graduates who have … 2014. We find that a more heterogeneous curriculum increases both firms' supply of and students' demand for training places. …

nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy … skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others …. These results imply that the scope to improve teachers' skills varies between countries and that policy makers should take …