This article investigates the biases involved in estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school’s performance …

Proposals to use teachers' performance incentives as the basis for school reforms have recently attracted considerable … and school staff as merit pay and the rest, for the well-being of teachers in the school. I evaluate the effect of the …

parts: The first included 7 items about respondent characteristics, the second 16 items about school quality, the third 18 … policy makers to highlight teacher’s self-efficacy and satisfaction, and students’ and parents’ satisfaction and school …

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 … are associated with improvements in school culture, as measured by the quality of student-teacher relationships and … perceptions of safety at school. We find no evidence of trade-offs between students, with students benefiting even if they were …

administrative data on Texas high school students, we leverage within school-year variation in peer composition at disciplinary …