This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern … students learn relatively more from non-tenure line professors in their introductory courses. These differences are present … across a wide variety of subject areas, and are particularly pronounced for Northwestern's average students and less …

new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality of entering students in an attempt to distinguish value added from … the quality of incoming students. We then rank programs according to value added. Our results are rather surprising. While … rankings since they do not recruit the very top students. We explore the determinants of our value added and student quality …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …, staggered introduction of the new curriculum across provinces allows us to identify the effects of the new educational content …

harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of … researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …

availability of data on all teachers and students in North Carolina over a ten-year period allows us to explore them in more detail … effects of changes in class size or to the socio-economics characteristics of students, as measured, for example, by the …

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

to be matched with more advantaged students, and we measure the bias this pattern generates in estimates of the impacts … restrict the analysis to schools that assign students to classrooms in a manner statistically indistinguishable from random … advantaged students, a finding that may help explain why the observed form of teacher-student matching persists in equilibrium …

students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects). However, the evidence on whether these interactions actually … between teachers and students at this level amplify boys' large underperformance in reading while attenuating the more modest …

access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …