Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …

This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes …

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …

Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on …

science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between … matter is limited and contradictory. In this study, I present new empirical evidence on whether assignment to a same-gender … based on these data indicate that assignment to a same-gender teacher significantly improves the achievement of both girls …

Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but …

permits researchers to match individual students and teachers, to analyze issues relating to how a teacher's race, gender, and … ethnicity, per se, influence students from both the same and different race, gender, and ethnic groups. In contrast to much of … objectively how much their students learn. On balance, we find that teachers' race, gender, and ethnicity, per se, are much more …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers' gender biases on boys' and girls' academic … teachers' biases favoring boys have an asymmetric effect by gender— positive effect on boys' achievements and negative effect … on girls'. Such gender biases also impact students' enrollment in advanced level math courses in high school …