We provide novel evidence on the causal impact of student absences in middle and high school on state test scores … middle and high school harm contemporaneous student achievement and longer-term educational attainment: On average, missing … absences in English Language Arts classes. These results suggest that absences in middle school and high school are just as …

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

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 …

proportion of black teachers, family fixed-effects models that compare siblings who attended the same school, and the random …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 …

Teachers are among the most important inputs in the education production function. One mechanism by which teachers … and teachers in 8th and 9th grade Algebra I classrooms from 2006 to 2016, we examine the effects of teachers' grading … characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …

Teachers are among the most important inputs in the education production function. One mechanism by which teachers … and teachers in 8th and 9th grade Algebra I classrooms from 2006 to 2016, we examine the effects of teachers' grading … characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …

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 …