We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

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 …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

students. We use administrative data from North Carolina elementary schools to examine the extent to which teachers vary in … of students who do not receive disciplinary sanctions from the teacher. Similarly, while teachers with a racial bias in … the use of referrals do not negatively affect academic outcomes for White students, they significantly increase …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

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 …

, demographically-similar teachers can increase students' achievement. These studies have tended to focus on the role of race and gender …-similar teacher. The effect is examined separately for students who are native Spanish-speakers and students who are native English … achievement of native Spanish-speaking students, particularly in Science and English. However, once differences in teacher …

In this paper, I evaluate potential side effects of the educational expansion in Germany on the learning outcomes of … today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …